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volume of the 'Butterflies of North America' as they became due, on the 

 condition that the collection should be handed over to him when the 

 studies were completed. This was done, and to-day Edwards's entire 

 collection forms a part of Dr. Holland's own private collection, which is 

 now deposited in the museum of the Carnegie Institute in order that it 

 may be made available with other collections for purposes of study on the 

 part of students. 



"Whilst fully appreciating the public spirit of Dr. Holland, it does 

 seem pitiful that the best work ever done by an American lepidopterist 

 was so ill-supported by the entomological public for whom it was written, 

 that the author not only had to give his life's work as a labour of love, but 

 also had to part with his collection, with all its personal and sentimental 

 ties, in order to give to an entomological world a work that it could not 

 even appreciate to the point of paying for the actual mechanical labour 

 expended by printers, lithographers, etc., in its production, an entomolog- 

 ical public that took, in addition, without payment, the years of labour 

 spent by the author, in amassing material, breeding and curating the speci- 

 mens, describing their early stages, etc. Such work is sometimes called, 

 as we have called it above, a labour of love. This may be excellent 

 sentiment, but it appears to us to be amazing nonsense in such a case as 

 this. A labour that ended in Edwards handing over his collection, under 

 the conditions above described, must have sapped his entomological life's 

 blood. No wonder we read in the notices of his death in the American 

 magazines, that, for the last 20 years of his life, Edwards gave up the study 

 of entomology, and took to the study of Shakespearian literature. Dr. 

 Holland's statement allows us now to picture clearly what entomology lost 

 by the failure of individual entomologists to support the best work on 

 lepidoptera that America ever produced. Possibly, at least, two more 

 volumes like the others might have been produced, had they both been 

 supported, and in their place we have a wordy warfare as to how 

 Shakespeare's name ought to be spelt ! ! " — The Entomologists' Record 

 and Journal of Variation, London, England — October 1909, pp. 239-240. 



MEETINGS DURING CHRISTMAS WEEK. 

 The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the 

 various societies affiliated with it, will meet at Boston, Mass., during the 

 week beginning Dec. 27, 1909. The Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists will hold its meetings on the Tuesday and Wednesday, and the 

 Entomological Society of America on the Thursday and Friday of that 

 week. A large attendance is expected. 



Mailed December 10th, 1909. 



