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that a field day be held once a month during the collecting 

 season. Motion made and carried to adopt said resolution, 

 and April 24th was set for the first field day to be held at 

 Merrimac Highlands, Mo. 



EDWIN P. MEINERS, Recording Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



LANCASTER THOMAS. 



Mr. Lancaster Thomas died at his home in Philadelphia on 

 April the second. He was born in Quaktertown, Pa., October 

 27th, 1838, and when he was about nineteen years of age 

 came to Philadelphia and engaged in the drug business. He 

 soon became the proprietor of a number of stores and was 

 very successful. Mr. Thomas was always an enthusiastic de- 

 votee of the sciences and cultivated a number of them with 

 marked success, having been particularly interested in physics, 

 mineralogy, astronomy, electricity, entomology and those pe- 

 culiar forms of life known as myxomycetes. Some years ago 

 he retired from business and had leisure to devote to these 

 pursuits. For a number of years he spent his summers in the 

 mountains of North Carolina where he collected actively, giv- 

 ng particular attention to the lepidoptera. The special locali- 

 ties visited were Cranberry, Linville, Roan Mountain sta- 

 tion and Blowing Rock. He published some very interesting 

 additions to the list of Cranberry. N. C, butterflies in this 

 journal in 1899, p. 128. He held membership in the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Entomo- 

 logical Society, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. His 

 sister, Miss Thomas, has presented to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, in his name, a fine set of cut-glass models of crystals 

 and the large series of butterflies he collected at Cranberry, 

 N. C. 



Mr. Thomas was a pleasant companion and devoted to a 

 circle of scientific friends who greatly deplore his loss. 



