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Descending now into a meadow, through which flows a shiggish brook, 

 I fold up the beating-net and screw the sweeping-net into its handle, 

 which hitherto has been only used to tap the branches with. The stream 

 is bordered with clumps of alders, willows, etc., between which grow 

 luxuriantly ferns and many herbaceous plants, with sedges and various 

 grasses. Magnificent fritillaries are hovering about the blossoms of the 

 milkweed, which are just beginning to open, while numbers of Neo?iy- 

 Jiipha Boisduvalli flit about with a peculiar jerky flight. Beetles do not 

 appear to be as common as they sometimes are here, but I take several 

 specimens of Scirtes orbiculattis, three species of fireflies and several 

 allied beetles, with several species belonging to the other families, as 

 CoccinellidK, etc. Three or four kinds of sawfly larvae are found but 

 none of the perfect insects are seen. Two, or perhaps three, species of 

 Chrysops are unpleasantly numerous, but are not nearly so aggressive as I 

 find them in a pine wood, through which I return. This wood rings with 

 the shrill music of the cicada and is enlivened by many butterflies in the 

 more open portions, where other trees and plants occur. My captures 

 during the ramble are perhaps fifty species of beetles and a few Hymenop- 

 tera. This number is less than half of what I frequently obtain, but the 

 value of collecting depends not so much upon the number of species 

 taken, as upon the observations which are made upon the habits of the 

 various species. 

 July 3rd, 1884. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with a feeling of sadness that we record the death of our esteemed 

 friend and companion. Prof. Francis Gregory Sanborn, which occurred at 

 the residence of a friend in Providence, June 5, 1884, by an overdose of 

 chloral, taken to allay a nervous affection, from which he was a sufferer. 

 He was bom in Andover, Mass., Jan. 18, 1838. His father. Dr. Eastman 

 Sanborn, was born in Sanbornton, N. H., and settled as surgeon dentist in 

 Andover, 



Francis was of slender health from infancy. From a diary kept by his 

 mother it appears that when he was two weeks old his life was despaired 

 of for many days. He was born a naturalist, and very early developed 



