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entomological journals of the country, and also in the most of 

 the publications of the learned societies of New England. He 

 described a goodly number of our butterflies, and the students 

 of the future will often think of him in connection with such 

 interesting species as Argynnis montinus, Melitaea harrisii, 

 Anaea andria, Colias interior, Pamphila metea, mystic, mana- 

 taaqua, panoquin, hianna, Amblyscirtes samoset, Pyrgus tes- 

 sellata, Thanaos martialis, etc. He described about thirty 

 species of butterflies found in the United States. His writ- 

 ings cover practically all phases of the subject and show mark- 

 ed originality : they number about one hundred papers and 

 some valuable books and memoirs, the work entailing the 

 greatest amount of labor, and research being his Butterflies 

 of the Eastern United States and Canada, with special refer- 

 ence to New England, in three volumes, Cambridge, 1889, 

 (published by the author). This is a mine of information, 

 from all sources, and will be invaluable for many years to 

 come. Special attention was given to the distribution, habits, 

 and life-histories and careful descriptions of the various 

 stages of life. An important feature is the mention of the 

 "desiderata" or the gaps in our knowledge of the species in 

 any particular. 



Other works are as follows: The Life of a Butterfly 

 (Anosia plexippus) (1893) > Butterflies: Their Structure, 

 Changes and Life Histories, with Special Reference to Ameri- 

 can Forms, (1881) : A Brief Guide to the Commoner Butter- 

 flies of the United States, (1893) ' Fossil Butterflies; Histori- 

 cal Sketch of the Generic Names Proposed for Butterflies; 

 Frail Children of the Air (1895); Every-Day Butterflies, A 

 Group of Biographies ('1899); Entomological Correspondence 

 of Thaddeus William Harris. 



He was for many years the editor of Psyche, the organ of 

 the Cambridge Entomological Club, and contributed largely 

 to its pages, and was Editor erf Science, 1883-1885. Another 

 invaluable work and one that entailed an immense amount of 



