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make mention in connection with the micro-lepidoptera of the 

 exceedingly vahiable publications of Lord Walsingham on our Ptent- 

 phoridae, Tortricidac and Tineina, as he advanced our knowledge of 

 them in a very gratifying way. Miss Murtfeldt has also contributed 

 much valuable information and described many new species of the 

 micro-lepidoptera. In this brief rcsntne we are obliged to omit the 

 mention of the names and works of many of our foremost entomo- 

 logists, whose work in other orders of insects places them in the front 

 rank of American entomologists. 



From the entomological division of the Department of Agriculture 

 in Washington, D.C., over which Dr. L. 0. Howard so ably presides, 

 from the Experiment Station of each State in the Union, and also 

 from the Experiment Station in Ottawa, Canada, in which Dr. James 

 Fletcher is the efficient entomologist, there is a constant issue of 

 bulletins on entomology, which are distributed gratuitously over all 

 the land to any and every person who expresses a desire for them. As 

 these bulletins are growing more and more valuable because of the 

 necessity of the greatest possible improvement in the Station entomo- 

 logists themselves, since it is a case of " the survival of the fittest," 

 what will be the development of entomological science in North 

 America in the next century ? 



Obituary : Baron Michel Edmond de Selys=LongcIianips 



{(cith jihotui/raph). 



Baron Michel Edmond de Selys-Longchamps passed away 

 peacefully on the morning of Tuesday, December 11th, 1900, in his 

 87th year. In the veteran neuropterist, entomology has sufl'ered a 

 heavy loss. A fortnight before his death he left his home at 

 Waremme to stay with his son, M. Raphael de Selys, at Liege ; eight 

 days before his death he took to his bed, where a long and busy life 

 came to an end, from sheer old age. He was born in Paris, May 25th, 

 1818. His father had been Mayor of Liege under the French 

 Republic, deputy for the department of Ourthe, and member of the 

 National Belgian Congress. His family had long been connected with 

 the politics of the principality of Liege, and was of Maestricht origin. 

 The deceased baron's public career in his native land was a prominent 

 one; successively communal councillor of Waremme in 1841, provin- 

 cial councillor in 1846, representative of the arrondissement of 

 Waremme in 1848, Senator of the same arrondissement from 1855, he 

 was eventually elected President of the Senate from 1880 to 1884. 

 He always took an important part in the discussions of the legis- 

 lative body. On the occasion of the revision of the Constitu- 

 tion, he advocated universal suft'rage in two degrees, uninomial 

 scrutiny, the representation of minorities, the election of the 

 Senate in two degrees, and other principles more familiar to 

 Belgian than to English ears. He was, in fact, what is rare for a 

 Belgian nobleman, a liberal democrat. The last survivor of the 

 famous liberal Congress of June, 1846, he was also a Grand Cross 

 of the Order of Leopold, and, in recognition of his scientific 

 work, which was as prominent as his pohtical labours, he was 

 elected corresponding member of the Belgian Academy in 1841, 

 full member of the same in 1846, and Honorary F.E.S. in 1871. His 



