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ilar titles, the plates and notes on Hemiptera, Orthoptera, and on the 

 Cotton Plant and its Diseases. The plates of the remaining orders 

 have been circulated among a few of his friends, but there are but fif- 

 teen full sets in existence. The plates with the notes were purchased 

 a year ago by the Government for $7,500, and are now deposited in 

 the National Museum under the care of Prof. Baird. 



It is doubtful whether any entomologist will ever care to take the 

 responsibility of editing and revising this unfinished work, but the 

 plates and notes, just as they are, ought to be published in limited edi- 

 tions by the Government and distributed to educational institutions 

 and libraries throughout the country. 



C. V. R. 



VICTOR TOUCEY CHAMBERS. 



Entomologists will learn with deep regret of the death of V. T. 

 Chambers, at Covington, Ky., on August 7th — his fifty-second birth- 

 day. He was a lawyer by profession, and yet found time to do a grea- 

 deal of entomological work. His writings have been confined almost 

 exclusively to the Tineidse, and all of his earlier papers wese descript 

 tive in their character and were published mainly in the " Canadian 

 Entomologist." 



His later writings, published in •' Psyche " and the " Cincinnati 

 Quarterly Journal of Science," dealt largely with the larval structure 

 of the Tineidse. In addition to these various articles, he published 

 in Bulletin i. Vol. IV., of the United States Geological and Geograph- 

 ical Survey, a list of "Tineina and their food-plants'' and an "Index 

 to the described Tineina of the United States." His collection was 

 some years ago deposited with the Cambridge Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and duplicates of many of his types arc in the possesion of 

 private individuals. — From Avierican Naturalist. 



JNO. L. LECONTE, M.D. 



This distinguished entomologist, and most estimable man, died at 

 his residence in Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1883, at the comparatively early 

 age of 58 years. In him the world has lost an earnest devotee of sci- 

 ence, and those who knew him best, a warm-hearted, affectionate and 

 sympathizing friend. He commenced the study of natural history 

 while little more than a boy, his taste for such pursuits being encour- 

 agingly fostered by his father — himself a distinguished naturalist — and 

 the collaborator with the late Dr. Boisduval in the " Lepidoptera of 

 North America." Many other members of his family are of great 

 eminence in the scientific world, two of his cousins, Drs. Jno. and Jos 

 Leconte (the latter a well-known geologist,) holding high positions in 

 the University of California. Dr. J. L. Leconte, whose death we have 

 now to deplore, made a special study of the Coleoptera of this coun- 

 try, and his writings upon his favorite branch of entomology, are both 

 numerous and valuable. A full list of them, numbering over 150 

 papers, was published about four years ago by " Psyche," and more re- 

 cently by the Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. It has been suggested that the 

 whole of these papers, many of them now exceedingly scarce, should 



