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PSYCHE. 



[November — December 13S3. 



Susceptible to the world's praise, he slirnnk 

 from its censure, which alone may be given 

 as a reason for his never having named a 

 species, or, to use liis own words, lieljietl to 

 mix up tlie nomenclature. 



Of his labors only those who were inti- 

 mately associated with him will ever know 

 how untiring and persistent — even methodi- 

 cally so — were his efforts. For years, all the 

 available moments of daylight, "out of office 

 hours," were given to engraving the copper 

 plates; the evenings were devoted to writing, 

 while into that uncertain limit 'twixt bed- 

 time and the time for blowing out the candle, 

 were crowded all his mental recreation, 

 reviewing of new books, reading the maga- 

 zines and the Herald, or, sometimes, even a 

 popular novel. 



Whether his work will ever be given to the 

 world or not, in its entirety — despite the 

 eftbrts of some to belittle it — it is simply a 

 colossal encyclopaedia of American entomol- 

 ogy, comprising names, derivations from the 

 Latin or Greek, and synonyms of thousands 

 of species of insects, with histories, food- 

 plants, remedies, habitat, etc'., a library in 

 itself, complete in detail, and comprehensive 

 in inception to a wonderful degree. It is 

 now in the possession of the United States 

 government, and its great size will doubtless 

 be the chief obstacle in the way of its publi- 

 cation. 



Charles Richards Dodge. 



The complete set of illustr.ations comprises 273 

 quarto pi.Ttes witli 6179 figures, engraved on cojjper 

 and covering the following subjects : — 



Plates. Figures. 

 Lepidoptera . _ 13S 2634 



Coleoptera 49 1627 



Diptcra 13 520 



Ileniijitera 16 464 



Hymenoptera 10 346 



Orthojitera iS 281 



Neuroptera 7 92 



Cotton and its insects 22 215 



Only 15 complete copies (author's proofs) of the 

 work arc in existence, six of which are in Euro])c and 

 nine in this country. In general not more than 50 

 copies of any work were printed, the text being litho. 

 graphed from llie author's manuscript. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTO.MOLOGICAL CLUB. 



13 April 1SS3. — The 9.:nd meeting of the 

 Club was held at 19 Brattle .Square, Cam- 

 bridge, 13 .April 1S83. In the absence of the 

 President, Mr. Hayward was chosen Chair- 

 man. Five members were present. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a collection of 

 colored figures of North American coleo- 

 ptera, hymenoptera and diptera, drawn by 

 Maj. LeConte. and now belonging to Dr. J. 

 L. LeConte. 



Mr. G. Dimmock read a paper on "The 

 cocoons of Cioiiiis scro/'/iiilaiiae." Tlie co- 

 coons of this European species of ciirciilioni- 

 rfrtc imitate the fruit of Scrophularia nodosa. 

 A sprig of Sciophularia, with cocoons of 

 Cionus upon it, was shown. [The paper will 

 appear in Psyche, v. 3.] 



Mr. S. H. Scudder called attention to B. N. 

 Peach's paper, entitled, "On some fossil 

 mvriapods from the lower old red sandstone 

 of Forfarshire" (Proc. Roy. phys. soc. 

 [Edinb.], iSSi-iSSj. p. 177-1SS. pi. 2) in 

 which two fossil mvriapods from the devonian 

 of Scotland are described. These two mvria- 

 pods {Kampccaiis foifarensh and Archides- 

 mu.'i mitcnico/i) arc probably the oldest insects 

 known. 



We have received the first seven numeros 

 of the Piaclical nntiinilisl. a monthly which 

 Ward and Riley have started at Bradford, 

 England. It consists of twelve octavo pages 

 monthly, neatly printed and in a tasty cover, 

 at the remarkably low price of is. 6d.[374c.] 

 (postpaid) to the United States, or Canada. 

 The publication is ''devoted to the assistance 

 and encouragement of lovers of nature," and 

 contains interesting original notes on ento- 

 mological subjects. The editors ought, how- 

 ever, to exercise more care in proof-reading. 

 The International news company, of New 

 York, are .\merican agents for the sale of 

 this paper. 



