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creep up the tree to deposit their eggs. Tlioy cannot, therefore, pass 

 the boot smeared with tar, and remain sticking in it if they make the 

 attempt. Jf this boot cannot be used, go in pursuit of the female moth 

 every evening in October and November, or strike the branches of the 

 trees with a long pole enveloped in tow or linen, in May, to throw 

 down the caterpillar. Mow' the grass short under the trees, or spread a 

 sheet to catch them in. In bare ground they are easily seen. 



We do not like to predict evil, but we are greatly afraid this meas- 

 uring worm is going to be the greatest fruit-tree pest of all our noxious 

 insects. We ought to be on the look-out for the female moths this 

 next fall or winter. This last spring dreadful have been its ravages 

 round our city on both sides of the Ohio. For two years large orchards 

 have been denuded of both leaves and fruit. The trees, however, have 

 all put out their foliage again, and therefore, it is a consolation they 

 are not killed. This is, no doubt, an insect imported from Europe, with- 

 in 4 or 5 years with trees and grafts, &c. 



There are, undoubtedly, many varieties of the geometra, and the 

 millers or moths, as well as the caterpillars, are of somewhat different 

 forms and colors. The miller of one. kind is of a dull slate color and 

 rather small, of the shape and size of the bee moth, (tinea meUonella.) 



High Hill farm, near JYeivport. E. J. H." 



COLLEGE RECORD, 



Jefferson College^ Canonshurg, Pa. The venerable President of 

 .Teflerson College, Matthew Brown, D. D. having resigned his station in 

 that histitution, the Rev. Robert Breckenridge, D. D. of Baltimore, Md., 

 has been elected his successor. This arrangement is to take effect at 

 the commencement of the next winter session. President Brown carries 

 with him into his retirement the warm attachment of hundreds of )'oung 

 men who have been educated under his auspices, and who will unite 

 with us in the prayer that the remainder of his life may be as calm as 

 the past has been useful. 



Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. President Durbin has resigned 

 his situation in this Institution, with the view of resuming the active du- 

 ties of the ministry. 



University of Virginia, Charlottcville, Va. The disgraceful disturb- 

 ances in this Institution having been terminated by the intervention of 

 the civil and military powers, the Professors generally are said to have 

 resigned. We do not see, however, that any of them have withdrawn, 

 except Judge Tucker, for whose chair an incumbent is sought. 



