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was a collecting naturalist \Yho settled in Georgia, and sent 

 over large collections of insects and drawings to Drury, 

 Francillon (who appears to have acted as his agent), Swainson, 

 and other Entomologists of the period. Many specimens 

 apparently of his collecting are still preserved in the British 

 Museum, the Dublin Museum, and elsewhere ; and there are 

 many volumes of his drawings in various libraries in England, 

 on the Continent, and in America. Francillon's own set, from 

 which Sir James Smith may have taken his selection (though 

 apparently not in every case), is contained in sixteen large quarto 

 volumes, representing not only insects of all orders, roughly 

 classified, but Spiders and other x\rthropoda. There are 

 upw^ards of 300 plates rejjresenting metamorphoses of Lepi- 

 doptera, some of which exhibit interesting cases of protective 

 resemblance. 



In addition to Smith's work, some of Abbot's drawings were 

 utilised in the preparation of Boisduval and Leconte's " Histoire 

 generale et Iconographie des Lepidopteres et des Chenilles de 

 I'Amerique septentrionale " (Paris, 1829-1842), a work no 

 continued beyond the Butterflies, and the letter[)ress of which 

 is not quite complete, even as far as the published plates 

 are concerned. 



Say's "American Entomology" (3 vols. Philadelphia, 1817- 

 1828) contains several interesting species of LepidoJ^/cra, though 

 Say seems to have worked less at this order than at some of 

 the others. 



Dr. T. \V. Harris's " Report on the Insects of Massachusetts 

 Injurious to Vegetation " was an exceedingly important con- 

 tribution to North American Entomology, and embodied 

 numerous original observations by the author on the habits 

 and transformations of Lepidoptera. There appear to have 

 been two issues in 1841 and 1842, a new edition in 1852, and 

 an illustrated edition, edited by C. L. Flint, in 1859. 



