2QO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ' 14 



published by the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, con- 

 tains the following (Vol. 2, page 58, 1867) : 



Died of typhoid fever on January n, 1867, Dr. Brackenridge Clem- 

 ens, of Easton, Pennsylvania. It was only the middle of December 

 when he was at the hall of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 

 looking as hale and hearty as ever. He was an excellent entomologist, 

 with good, sound, general views, and had devoted his especial atten- 

 tion to the Lepidoptera (moths) of this country. Readers of The 

 Practical Entomologist will recall his name as having been more than 

 once quoted as authority in Answers to Correspondents. 



April ii, 1859, he was elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. When he died 

 the Society adopted suitable resolutions expressive of its appre- 

 ciation of his intellectual attainments and of the high literary 

 and scientific character of his work, and that the Society "has 

 lost one whose ability was great, and the acuteness of whose 

 mind was large, capable of searching to the greatest depths. 

 and bring-ing therefrom the long sought knowledge." He was 

 buried at Easton, Pennsylvania. 



The distinguished English entomologist, the late H. T. 

 Stainton, F. R. S., Secretary of the Linnaean Society of Lon- 

 don, was so impressed by the value of Clemens' writings on the 

 Microlepidoptera that he republished them in book form. The 

 title of this work is "The Tineina of North America, by (the 

 late) Dr. Brackenridge Clemens (being a collected edition of 

 his writings on that group of insects. London : John Van 

 Voorst, Paternoster Row. 1872." Stainton says: 



"Little did I think when I received his first letter in 1857, two years 

 before he became an author, that his career was to be so brilliant and 

 so short. I had for some years contemplated putting together such an 

 arrangement of his writings as would enable those who were previ- 

 ously unacquainted with them to profit by his remarks on the habits 

 of new genera, genera with which we in Europe were unacquainted." 



In the years 1857 to 1860, Stainton received nine letters 

 from Dr. Clemens and published them in the above mentioned 

 work. They are very interesting and show Clemens to have 

 been a man of unusual culture, education and refinement, and 

 a keen naturalist. Lie was first attracted to the subject of 

 natural history from the aesthetic standpoint, for he says : 



