386 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct, , '08 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



C. F. BAKER is returning to Claremont, California, as Associate Pro- 

 fessor of Biology in Pomona College. 



AFTER September i, 1908, my address will be Bussey Institution, For- 

 est Hills, Boston, Mass. W. M. WHEELER, Professor of Economic 

 Entomology, Harvard University. 



SPHAERIDIUM SCARABAEOIDES, LINN. IN OHIO. August 22, 1908, while 

 collecting near Ira, Summit County, Ohio, I found numbers of the 

 above introduced beetle. It was swarming in piles of fresh cow excre- 

 ment. CHARLES DURY. 



THE trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst 

 have voted to establish a graduate school with Professor Charles H. 

 Fernald as its head. It will confer degrees of master of science and 

 doctor of philosophy. 



JUNONIA COENIA. While collecting near York, Maine, on August 

 igth, I saw (within five feet) but failed to secure, a fresh specimen of 

 Junonia cotnia Hbn. It was darker in color than specimens taken on 

 Long Island and in Connecticut, resembling rather the dark specimens 

 often seen in southern Florida. I do not know whether its occurrence 

 so far north has been recorded previously. W. C. WOOD, New York. 



DR. W. J. HOLLAND WEARING DECORATIONS CONFERRED UPON HIM BY 

 EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY AND PRESIDENT FALLIERES OF FRANCE. 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, former chancellor of the Western University of 

 Pennsylvania and now director of the Carnegie Museum, has been 

 honored by both the Emperor of Germany and President Fallieres of 

 the French Republic, who conferred upon him the orders of the Knight 

 of the Crown and Officer of the Legion of Honor. He is the first Pitts- 

 burger and the first man in the United States to be doubly honored in 

 this manner. 



Dr. Holland will rarely wear these orders in public. In Europe on 

 public occasions it is the custom to wear all such decorations. In 

 America it is not customary, and so Dr. Holland will only wear them 

 on special occasions. 



The Royal Prussian Order of the Knight of the Crown, is a cross 

 of white enamel inscribed, "Gott Mit Uns." The order was founded 

 by Emperor William in 1861. 



The cross of Olificier de la Legion d'Honneur is a five-pointed cross 

 bound in gold. It differs from the original form of the cross as it was 

 first fashioned in the days of Napoleon I, as France is now a republic. 



Dr. Holland is known to all entomologists through his valuable books 

 and papers. 



