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Other nurseries in Sussex were nearly ruined, and from the great 

 abundance of the aphides he thinks his own trees would have been 

 destroyed but for very prompt action. , 



Prof. John B. Smith also informs me that he had excellent suc- 

 cess at Vineland, N. J., in the use of whale-oil soap,— -one pound to 

 eight gallons of water. One spraying took off most of the aphides, 

 and another, a day or two after, finished the work without injury to 

 the foliage. 



FIRE! 



On the night of Friday, the 13th of September, a fire broke 

 out in the roof of the Brooklyn Institute, in whose building the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society holds its meetings, and where were 

 stored its library, collections and publications. 



In the building were also the collections of Prof Julius E. 

 Meyer, and the library and collections of the assistant editor. 



Prof Meyer's collection, an exceedingly valuable one of Le- 

 pidoptera, was slightly damaged. With the exception of a few 

 cases, injured by water, the collection proper is practically entire. 

 His boxes of duplicates were almost entirely destroyed. 



The main part of the collection of the assistant editor was con- 

 tained in a large cabinet, the four doors of which were fortunately 

 closed, and it thus escaped injury. An immense mass of unarranged 

 and unmounted material, mostly in cigar-boxes, was more or less 

 injured. The water and the dampness of the week succeeding the 

 fire, damaged a large part of his library. The loss was estimated at 

 about $1000. No insurance. 



The entomological collections of the Institute, all of which 

 were insured, including those formerly the property of Dr. Calverley 

 and B. Jaeger, and of Maj. J. Carson Brevoort, were more or less 

 damaged, as were also several cases belonging to the Society. 



The Society's library, and its large stock of publications, were 

 uninjured, with the exception of a lot of current publications that 

 were in use in another room. 



It was found necessary to remove all of the effects from the 

 Institute building, and they were soon moved a second time. As a 

 consequence, the Society's library and publications were necessarily 

 disordered, and it will be some time, it is feared, before they can be 

 rearranged. 



Temporary quarters have been secured in the Hoagland Labo- 

 ratory, at the corner of Pacific and Henry Streets, Brooklyn, where 

 the Society will hold its meetings until further notice. F. H. C. 



