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inologists of our land as one of the most able and promising workers 

 in their ranks, where his name will ever stand. 



During- several years he has occasionally found in the books re- 

 ceived, entomological articles printed in various languages with 

 which he was unacquainted, the Russian being one of them ; and in 

 such cases he would study up the language with such aids as he 

 could command, and thus always managed to arrive at the gist of the 

 matter presented. 



In 1880, in company with Dr. Farquharson, he attended the Bos- 

 ton meeting, of the x\merican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, of which he then first became a member, and, at the same 

 session, he was elected a Fellow of the Association, an honor con- 

 ferred only in acknowledgment of eminent scientific attainments, 

 and very seldom upon young members. 



After this meeting he spent some months in exploring the princi- 

 pal libraries of eastern institutions, of which he has the following 

 memorandum among his papers. 



"NOTE OP A BIBLIOGRAPHY OP THE GALEODIP^." 



" Having devoted my leisure moments for some time to ti study of the 

 Galeodidm, I availed myself of the opportunity in the fall of 1880 to inves- 

 tigate the present condition of the' literature of this very interesting and 

 seemingly mucli neglected group of animals. In doing this, I visited all tlie 

 ])rincipal scientific libraries in Cambridge, Boston, New York, Pliiladelphia, 

 Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and Davenport. I found that this lit- 

 erature was much more voluminous tlian I had supposed, and I soon had a 

 list of over two liundred and twenty worlds (including ditferent editions of 

 the same work) to be consulted, witliout taking into account the numerous 

 references in the works of classic Greek and Roman authors supposed by 

 Lichtenstein and others to refer to Odleodes or Solpuga. Of tliese two hun- 

 dred and twenty works all but about thirty-five were found in one or more 

 of the libraries visited. Thirty of the works not seen were diff'erent edi- 

 tions or translations of the others ; thus leaving but five works of importance 

 not seen. A complete abstract of eacli work was made, thus furnisliing ma- 

 terial for a complete index and historical summary." 



I may add that this historical sunnnary he has since made, the ab- 

 stracts being classified in order of time. Also, that they are illus- 

 trated by a great many drawings which he copied from the works 

 consulted, and forming a basis and preparation for the study of the 

 SolpKgidce^ which would be exceedingly valuable to any one who 

 should undertake a thorough investigation and development of the 

 subject, such as he intended and would surely have accomplished. 

 How he found time and strength for so great a work, seems almost 



