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have not some corresponding physiological difl'erence. It seems highly 

 probable, and yet it is difficult to imagine what it could be. The com- 

 plete (^ is the most common, the imperfect (^ nearly as plentiful while 

 the incomplete (^ is comparatively rare. 



The imported Elm Leaf Beetle. Its habits and Natural History and means of 

 counteractint; its injuries. Bulletin No. 6 of Div. of Ent. U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture pp. i8; i pi. May 1885. 



Insects affecting growing wheat. By F. M. Webster. Purdue Univ. Bulletin 

 No. 3. Indianapolis April 1885, pp. 6; 3 Plates. 



Obituary Note. 



We are sorry to record the death of Mr. H. K. Morrison, of Morgan- 

 ton, N. C. Mr. Morrison was born at Boston, Mass , January 24, 1854, 

 and died at his home in Morganton, June 15, 1885, of inflamation of 

 the bowels. The passion for collecting insects was strong with him from 

 childhood, and in his twentieth year he determined to give up his busi- 

 ness as shoe dealer and devote himself entirely to Entomology. At this 

 time he began publishing, and described quite a number of heterocerous 

 lepidoptera and made valuable notes and observations, especially in the 

 Noctuidae. The papers were principally in 1873. 1874 and 1875 i" ^^ 

 Boston Proceedings, and Proc. Ac. N. S., Phil. Many notes and shorter 

 papers are in the Canadian Entomologist for those years. They display 

 strong appreciation of characters used in systematic Entomology, and 

 render it a matter of regret that he did not continue the study. However 

 he had determined to earn his living as a collector, and the long trips 

 necessitated by this made systematic work an impossibility; the more so 

 as justice to those purchasing from him required that rarities should go 

 to them in the sets taken. In the spring of '76 he went south, collect- 

 ted in Georgia and the mountains of Western N. C. , in '77 he married 

 and establishad his home in Morganton, whence his later trips were made. 

 In '77 he also made a three months trip to Colorado; the summer of '78 

 he collected in the black hills; '79 '" Nev., Cal. and Utah, '80 and '81 

 in Wash. Terr, Or. and So. Cal.; '82 and '83 in Arizona, '84 in South- 

 ern Florida and in the spring of '85 he again spent some time at Key 

 West. Mr. Morrison was a dilligent and careful collector and found a 

 large number of new species in all orders, so that "Collected by Mr. 

 Morrison" appears everywhere in descriptive papers. He was well known 

 not only everywhere in America, but also in Europe, and had built up 

 quite an extensive business in this line. His premature death has de- 

 prived our science of one of its most active workers in the collecting line 

 and will leave a vacancv hard to be filled. 



