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tution by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ; 

 but his deafness excused him from attendance at the meetings, and his 

 membership was understood to be in honorable testimony to his character. 

 Many other learned bodies in Europe and America also placed his famous 

 name on their lists ; among these the Geological Societies of London and 

 Brussels made him a corresponding member ; and he continued to be ac- 

 counted by his Alma Mater, the Academy of Neufchatel, one of its hon- 

 orary professors. 



Lesquereux did not attempt further field work after 1884. He was then 

 78 years old. The last five years of his life were passed in quiet 

 retirement in his cottage on the edge of Columbus, at which books, mono- 

 graph pamphlets, and specimens of fossil plates for identification or de- 

 scription were constantly arriving from old correspondents and fresh 

 young workers. He began to lament the widowed loneliness and failing 

 brain-power of old age, and predicted his own death from spring to 

 spring. But his strength held out until the end of the summer of last 

 year, after which he existed in an almost insensible condition, and in a 

 few weeks peacefully ceased to breathe. 



Description of a New Species of Pteropus. By Harrison Allen. 

 {Bead before the American Philosophical Society, March 21, 1890. 



Pteropus lanigera, sp. nov. 



Crown covered with dark gray, unicolored hair. The hairs between the 

 eyes are directed backward, but over the rest of the crown are erect. Face 

 everywhere hairy. In front and below the eye the hair is thicker than 

 elsewhere. On the cheeks and lips the hair is directed downward, while 

 on the horizontal ramus of the lower jaw it is directed backward. The 

 region of the whisker is composed of long, woolly hair of the same nature 

 as that of the crown but of an obscure brown shade, and extends like a 

 collar to the neck. The under surface of the head, therefore, unusually 

 full and woolly. The space between the rami to a point a short distance 

 back of the rictus is of a dark brown. 



The side of the neck covered with long, brown, unicolored hair, the 

 same color passing more to the front of the neck than to the back where 

 the shade is of a gray tinge. The base of the prebracbium ventrally is 

 covered with long, woolly hair as on the side of the neck. 



The side of trunk with long, silky, unicolored brown hair, the front the 

 same with ashy tips. The middle of the chest is remarkable for exhibiting 

 a pure gray, white spot the size of an almond. In one specimen the hair of 

 the spot is unicolored, and in the other it retains a black-brown base. 

 The infraanal region is the same as the front and conceals the inter- 

 femoral membrane. 



