VOL. IV.] JoJm Lora Curtis. 185 



Jumping Spider, in Zoe, vol. iii, p. 332. He had previ- 

 ously prepared an article on a species of Theridion, of about 

 fifteen or twent}^ ordinary octavo pages, illustrated with over 

 fifty figures, mostly colored, and finished with great care. This 

 contains, beside the description of the little spider, its life history 

 thro' two generations, each represented by many individuals, 

 noting at least six fairly distinct varieties. The publication of 

 this article has been delayed by the difficulty in reproducing the 

 colored plates. 



Rev. Henry C. McCook, the distinguished araneologist of 

 Philadelphia, in writing of Mr. Curtis says: "A little while 

 before I had prepared material for a new species of spider which 

 I had dedicated to him, attaching to it his name. The drawings 

 of this are done, and the engraving of Pachygnatha Curtisi is 

 already upon the plate of the lithographer." 



His interest in spiders was united to a lively interest in other 

 branches of natural history and social progress. His aim was to 

 prepare a descriptive list of the spiders of California. When he 

 foresaw his early death he hoped some stronger hand would con- 

 tinue and finish the work. J. D. ly. 



A New Station for Asplenium septentrionai.e. Mr. 

 Brandegee sends specimens from San Pedro Martir, a high moun- 

 tain nearly east of San Quintin, in Baja California. This is five 

 or six hundred miles west of the nearest previously recorded 

 station, which is, I think a mountain in New Mexico, called Ben 

 Moore, where Dr. J. M. Bigelow detected it in 1851. Mr. Charles 

 Wright collected it probabl}^ at the same place a little later. 

 Next, Hall & Harbour found it in Colorado, and Mr. Bran- 

 degee obtained it later in the Grand Canon of the Arkansas. 



In the Old World its range is from Great Britain to the 

 Himala3'a Mountains. It is strange it has never been found in 

 the eastern part of North America. D. C. Eaton. 



