110 . THE CANADIAN EXTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES. 



The Editor regrets to announce that the main building of Trinity 

 College School, of which he has been Head Master for the last twenty-five 

 years, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of Saturday, February 

 9th. Though the weather was intensely severe and all the boys were in 

 bed when the fire broke out, no one was injured in any way. School- 

 work was resumed in temporary quarters on the Tuesday morning, and in 

 a few days a large hotel and other premises were secured, in which the 

 boys are comfortably provided for until the work of rebuilding is completed.. 



The Editor desires to thank his many friends for their kind letters of 

 sympathy, and begs that his correspondents will pardon any delay in 

 reply to their letters, as his time is so fully occupied with other matters. 

 Though he lost a large number of books and valuable papers, his ento- 

 mological library and collections were fortunately in his private residence, 

 which was with much difficulty saved from destruction. 



We are sorry to learn that others have been less fortunate than our- 

 selves during this disastrous winter. Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend had 

 his valuable library, which was particularly rich in works on European 

 and American Diptera, stored in a warehouse at Las Cruces, New Mex. 

 During his absence at Washington, the building was burned down and all 

 his property was destroyed. He will be very grateful to any correspond- 

 ents who will send him as complete sets as possible of their publications. 

 His address is now Brownsville, Tex , where he is acting as temporary Field 

 Agent of the Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Mr. J. G. Jack, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has also sustained a very 

 serious loss by the destruction by fire of his library and collection. We 

 trust that those who are in a position to do so will assist in replacing them. 



Mr. a. R. Groie, of Bremen, Germany, has changed his address to 

 " 39 Gartenstrasse, Hildesheim, Germany." 



We grieve to record the deaths of Dr. George Marx, the eminent 

 Arachnologist, who expired at Washington, D.C., on the 4th of January, 

 aged 56 years ; and of Mr. Berthold Neumoegen, a frequent contribu- 

 tor to this magazine, and the possessor of a very valuable and extensive 

 collection of Lepidpptera, who died of consumption, in New York, on the 

 2ist of January, in the 50th year of his age. 



Mailed March 30th. 1895. 



