i08 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



A FEW LAST WORDS TO DR. WASMANN. 



BY 'IHOS. L. CASEY, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



I have read with some interest Dr. Wasmann's " Last Reply '" in the 

 March number of this journal (page 74), and hasten to say that I was by no 

 means " angry " when I wrote the answer referred to. I was only pained 

 to think that a man of Dr. Wasmann's eminence in the scientific world 

 would stoop to send to a colleague a specimen without marks of any kind 

 for identification, in order to have him commit himself to an opinion when 

 deprived of the subtle influence of at least a locality label. 



I feel sure that upon reflection Dr. Wasmann will not hold me 

 responsible for his failure to glance over the matter referred to in my 

 paper, which, the heading stated, comprised other studies besides the 

 revision of Corylophidre, etc., or for my being at a loss to understand the 

 correspondence in the light of current events. 



I did not send Dr. Wasmann a copy of my reply, because, as he had 

 used this journal as a vehicle of publication, 1 supposed that he was 

 accustomed to reading it regularly. Not a single copy of my "extras" has 

 been sent out to anyone, it seeming preferable to me that the article in 

 question should be known only within the sphere of circulation of the 

 journal in which his original article and my reply appeared. Dr. 

 Wasmann has evidently misinterpreted the motive of my failure to send 

 him a copy, and I therefore make this explanation. 



If I went too far in misconstruini:^ Dr. Wasmann's actions in this 

 matter, which is not very momentous from any point of view, it will give 

 me pleasure to retract whatever may have wronged him. Our entomo- 

 logical friends have the full history of the issue, and can form their own 

 conclusion. 



A PRESENT TO THE SOCIETY. 



The Entomological Society of Ontario has been kindly remembered 

 by Messrs. j. and H. Comstock, Evanston, 111., in a contribution to its 

 collection of a number of butterflies taken by themselves in a trip through 

 Colorado during the season of 1902. Carefully done up in papers, named 

 and dated, with the localities in which they were taken, these specimens 

 are of special interest as representing much-discussed forms of that famous 

 locality, which hitherto have been known to us only by name. 



J. Alston Moffat, Curator. 



