288 POMONA COLLEGE JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY 



In the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, for July, 

 1910, \'ol. IX, No. 2, page 68-71, Mr. Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., has an article: 

 Additions and Corrections to the List of Southern California Butterflies. 



Dr. Wm. Barnes of Decatur, 111., was a visitor in Fasadena on August 3. 

 Dr. Barnes has one of the best collections of Lcpidoptcra in the United States. 



During the session of the Behr Natural History Laboratory, many in- 

 teresting insects and plants were collected which will be worked up gradually 



A later communication from Messrs. Mann and Coolidge (July 29), is 

 from Naco, Sonora, Mexico. They report "collecting good." With two such 

 enthusiastic collectors in such a little known region, a lot of new and interesting 

 things should turn up. 



"Berkeley, July 25. — An extended trip through the mountains and out 

 of the way places of Sonoma County has resulted in the capture by Prof. 

 Charles Fuchs, in charge of the entomological collection at the University, of 

 a number of unique insects which have never before been classified. The tiny 

 bugs have not as yet been sorted and arranged in the University collection, 

 but Professor Fuchs believes that several of the specimens will prove of 

 great worth to entomologists." — San Francisco Call, July 26, 1910. 



In the Entomologists' Record and Journal of \'ariation, there is an in- 

 teresting sketch on Entomologists and Entomology at Oxford. Under the 

 direction of Prof. E. B. Poulton, "the collections have now assumed a vastness 

 that makes all the available rooms appear hopelessly insufficient" — and further, 

 usefulness "is the predominant note struck when one begins to examine the 

 material in the collection in detail. The System of labeling* makes most 

 of the specimens of the highest scientific value, and whether the specialist be 

 studying variation, phenology, or geographical distribution, he finds a wealth of 

 accurately labeled material which is of the greatest importance for his work." 

 We need such a collection or collections on the Pacific Coast, for tne preserva- 

 tion of large series of accurately labeled specimens, from every locality, whicn 

 will be of great use to the student of bionomics, in a few years when the nature 

 of the country will undoubtedly be changed by the commercial activity of to- 

 day. Series of variable species collected at different places in different years, 

 will prove immensely useful. Experimental work will not lead to the satis- 

 factory solution of evolutionary problems. We must study things in their 

 natural environment, and only in that way can we arrive at a correct idea 

 of species — formation. In other words, we need more collectors and collec- 

 tions, and one or two large collections for the accumulation of specimens for 

 binnomic work. 



•It:ilics are mine. — F. G. 



