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in 1883 he was placed on the scientific staff of the Museum, a 

 position he held until his death. He has written about one thou- 

 sand papers on scientific subjects, published twelve Annual Re- 

 ports on the Injurious and other Insects of the State of New 

 York, and was widely recognized as one of the foremost ento- 

 mologists of the world His services in the interests of agricul- 

 ture and allied pursuits have been of great value to both the 

 State and Nation. He was a forceiul speaker, an accomplished 

 writer, and a man of not only high scientific, but of rare per- 

 sonal attainments. In 1884 the Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York conferred upon him the honorary degree of 

 Ph.D. He was president of the Entomological Club of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, two years each, has 

 been president of the department of natural science in the Albany 

 Institute since 1879, and was a member of the American Ento- 

 mological Society, the Entomological Society of Washington, 

 D. C. , the Entomological Society of Ontario, Canada, the New 

 York Academy of Science, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- 

 ences, the Cambridge Entomological Club, the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Davenport, Iowa, the Oneida Historical 

 Society, the Kansas State Horticultural Society, the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, the Musee Royal d' Histoire Naturelle 

 de Beige, Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, and 

 Societe Entomologique de France, and since August 21, 1873, 

 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. For twenty-five years he was editor of the entomo- 

 logical department of the " Country Gentleman." October 2, 

 1856, he married Frances C. , daughter of Hon. Holmes Hutch- 

 inson, of Utica, N. Y. Their children are George A., of Minne- 

 apolis, and Charles H. (deceased), of St. Paul, Minn., and Mary 

 C. and Laura B., of Albany, N. Y." 



YEARS ago when I collected Lepidoptera in this locality I never saw a 

 specimen of Pyrgns tessellata anywhere. On coming back here this Fall 

 the first thing that attracted my attention were specimens of tessellata 

 flying along the sidewalks and in our back yard; they seemed to be quite 

 common. G. R. PILATE, Dayton, O. 



