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Always of a religious turn of mind, he delighted in sacred history 

 and Biblical studies ; and a number of words of a sacred and historical 

 character proceeded from his pen. The last of these, published in 1884, 

 was entitled, The Mysteries of God, a Series of Expositio7is of Holy 

 Scripture. 



One cannot often point to a life more pleasantly and usefully spent 

 than that of Philip Henry Gosse. 



Thomas W. Fyles. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



DANAIS ARCHIPPUS. 



Dear Sir : I send you my season's observations on the movements 

 of D. archippus in this locality. The spring of '88 was an unusually 

 backward one here, cool, dry weather prevailing, which will, of course, 

 affect all the dates more or less. I commenced by watching for the ap- 

 pearence of milk-weed Asclepias cornutus in two places where it grows in 

 abundance ; one, a flat to the west of the city, protected on the east and 

 north by a high bank ; the other to the east along the foot of the Niagara 

 escarpment, a very warm spot when the wind is not north-east. On the 

 4th of June, I could not see a sign of its coming through the ground ; on 

 the 5th, I went to the country, about 26 miles north of this ; they had 

 more rain there, and A. cortiiittis was from three to six inches high ; on 

 the 7th, I saw my first D. archippus of the season, but they did not appear 

 in any great numbers whilst I remained. On my return, I visited the 

 west end on the 26th, there were a few flying about the weed, 

 which was then from ten to fourteen inches in height with blossom 

 clusters not yet expanded. I captured three — two males and a female, 

 and saw a larva about one inch long and as thick as a wheat straw. In 

 the same locality, on 3rd of July, I counted seven on the wing at one 

 time, flying vigorously, and took two males, and felt sure from their 

 movements the others were the same. On the 5 th went east, milk-weed 

 in full bloom, archippus abundant ; captured two males, and suspected 

 all the others to be the same ; could find no larvas ; took fresh hatched 

 Milberti and saw plenty ot fresh Atalanta. Went west on the 

 7th, not many on the wing, and could find very few larvse. 

 Was at Guelph for ten days on the i6th, and visited the Agricultural 

 College. Prof Panton showed me chrysalids reared in confinement. 



