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material he brought back with him a great (}uantity of other material 

 illustrating the fauna of the Laramie beds. 



Interf:st in the Prize Essay Contest is at its height as these lines 

 go to i)ress. Two thousand pupils in the schools have applied for 

 the necessary blanks and envelopes with which to make return of their 

 essays to the Hoard of Judges. This is a much larger number than 

 have ever applied for this material at any previous competition and 

 gives promise that there will l)e a much larger number of essays pre- 

 sented than at any former time in the history of the Museum. 



During recent months the Museum has been visited by a great 

 many distinguished scientific men. One of our most welcome visitors 

 was Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward, the Keeper of the Department of 

 Geology at the British Museum, who was accompanied by Mrs. 

 Woodward. The Chilean Commissioner to the World's Fair at St. 

 Louis spent a day in studying the contents of the Museum, having 

 been specially commissioned by his Government to make a study of 

 the museums of the United States. Professor Allorge of the De])art- 

 ment of Geology at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Marquis Eduardo 

 Bosco of Rome, and a multitude of other gentlemen of distinction and 

 well known attainments have been visitors from abroad, and a con- 

 stant stream of able and distinguished scientific men representing the 

 various colleges, universities, and museums of the Ignited States has 

 come and gone. Had anyone predicted twenty-five, or even ten years 

 ago, that Pittsburgh would become to any extent a Mecca for scientific 

 men, the Pittsburgher of that day woulci have laughed him to scorn. 

 But, toiipora iiuitanftir. 



W\i Karl Hartman of Austin, Texas, has kindly communicated 

 to the Editor a series of very interesting observations u|)on F.pipyrops 

 harberiana Dyar, the larva of which singular little moth he finds para- 

 sitic u|)on living specimens of the common Fulgorid, Onuciiis pniiuosa 

 Say. A series of very interesting specimens has been kindly ])resented 

 by Mr. Hartman to the Museum. The first record of the occurrence 

 of a parasitic moth living upon the waxy secretions of a candle-fiy was 

 made in the Procccdiui^^s of the Entomological Society of London, in 

 the year 1876, by Professor J. O. ^Vestwood of Oxford. Mr. Dyar 

 in 1902 described Epipyrops barbcriana from rather scanty material. 



