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lungen zur geologischen specialkarte von 

 Elsass-Lothringen. It is on the insects of 

 the middle oligocene of Brunstatt, Alsatia, 

 by Dr. B. Foerster, and describes 159 species, 

 all but one belonging to the Coleoptera, 

 Hemiptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera to 

 name them in the order of their abundance. 

 Six excellent plates, including 171 figures, 

 all drawn by the author, accompany the 

 work. Two of the beetles, a Dorcatoma and 

 a Bruchus, the latter rather imperfect, pre- 

 sented no features by which they could be 

 distinguished from living European species. 

 The mass of the species are of a small size. 

 Interesting comparisons are instituted with 

 the insects of other tertiary localities. 



Personal notes. Entomologists every- 

 where will deeply regret to hear of the death 

 of Mr. Henry Edwards who loved his favorite 

 studies quite as much as he did the stage and 

 brought to both an ardor and freshness con- 

 tagious and perennial. "Do mention," writes 

 one of his correspondents, "his unwearying 

 kindness and unfailing help to entomologists 

 who were more ignorant than himself. I owe 

 much to his help and encouragement and 

 shall miss him sorely, though I never saw 

 his face," and these qualities which so en- 

 deared him to a large circle of friends were 

 indeed conspicuous in that face. 



Two entomologists have recently received 

 appointments at Harvard university though 

 not in the field of entomology : Dr. Roland 

 Thaxter as assistant Professor of crypto - 

 gamic botany and Mr. J. G. Jack as Arboretum 

 lecturer for 1S91-1892. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



13 December, 1889. — The 150th meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St., the pres- 

 ident in the chair. 



Dr. H. A. Hagen said that from a recent 

 study of the species of Anax he thought that 

 A. concolor and A. longipes were identical 

 and that the number of species so called 

 should be reduced. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder, referring to the fossil 

 plant-lice found at Florissant, said that most 

 of the species belonged to the Aphidinae and 

 a very few to the Schizoneurinae. As a whole 

 the species differ notably from modern types 

 in the length of the stigmatic cell and in 

 this respect they agree with the species from 

 amber and a form figured by Brodie from the 

 secondary rocks of England. * 



Mr. Scudder said that in a psocid from the 

 tertiary rocks of White River, the ocelli 

 were very large and encroached upon the 

 eyes. 



He also showed a photograph of the fossil 

 butterfly (Barbarothea) mentioned at the 

 last meeting and called attention to the com- 

 parative shortness of the palpi. 



10 January, 1S90. — The 150th meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St., the 

 president in the chair. 



The secretary read a letter from Mr. B. 

 Pickmann Mann of Washington, in which, 

 after wishing the Club and its members a 

 happy and prosperous new year, he detailed 

 an account of the financial condition of vol- 

 ume four of Psyche. 



The report of the retiring secretary, Mr. 

 Roland Hayward, was then read, accepted, 

 and ordered to be placed on file. The retir- 

 ing treasurer, Mr. Samuel Henshaw, then 

 presented his report, which was laid on the 

 table for action, till the report of the audi- 

 tors should be received. 



The Club next proceeded to ballot for offi- 

 cers for 1890, with the following result: 

 President, C W. Woodworth of Fayetteville, 

 Ark. ; Secretary, Roland Hayward ; Treas- 

 urer, Samuel Henshaw; Librarian, George 

 Dimmock. Members at large of Executive 

 Committee, Holmes Hinckley and Samuel 

 H. Scudder. Messrs. George Dimmock and 

 Samuel Henshaw were elected editors of 

 Psyche. 



The retiring president, Mr. Samuel H. 

 Scudder, then read his annual address, en- 

 titled, "The work of a decade on fossil in- 

 sects." (See Psyche, 1890, v. 5, pp. 287- 

 295-) 



