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Museum, it is stated that arrangements have been made for the 

 Doubleday Collection to be open for inspection until 9.30 p.m. on 

 Tuesdaj^s ; on other days it is open from 10 a. m. till 5 p. u. 



A short notice of the insects collected by Captain Feilden 

 during the late Arctic Expedition, so far as the}^ have hitherto 

 been unpacked, has been given by Mr. M'Lachlan in the ' Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine' for January, 1877, including "five 

 or six butterflies, within a few hundred miles of the North Pole" — 

 a curious circumstance when it is taken into consideration that 

 Iceland and the large islands of the Spitzbergen group, although 

 in lower latitudes, have apparently no butterflies. The species 

 collected belong to the genera Colias, Argynnis (or Melitsea), 

 Chrysophanus, Acronycta, Amphidasis, Cheimatobia, Phycis, 

 Bombus, Ichneumon, Tachina, Tipula ?, Culex, Simulium, and 

 various bird-lice. 



In South America, in addition to the excellent work done and 

 doing at the Public Museum of Buenos Ayres by our friend 

 Dr. Burmeister, we are glad to announce the establishment of an 

 "Academia Nacional de Ciencias exactas" in the University of 

 Cordova, the capital of the Argentine Eepublic, and the pub- 

 lication of the first volume of its ' Acta' in a handsome 4to form. 



An unexpected instance of the extended cultivation of Ento- 

 mology occurs in the last September number of the modern 

 Greek periodical entitled 'Bupuv' {To/jiog B, ^vx>.a^iov 21), in which 

 seven quarto pages are devoted to the subject, the Mefoj Tptrov, 

 relating to the general characters and modes of collecting and 

 preserving insects with hard wing- covers, the Me^og TeTa^rov, to 

 the ctear-winged insects, " ©»/?« ^vrofiuv E^ovreav Ylrepuyag Aia^aveig." 

 The article is illustrated with wood-cuts showing the modes of 

 pinning and setting insects ; and it is to be noticed that the Greek 

 collectors prefer to set their Lepidoptera with their wings gradually 

 elevated to the tip, just contrary to our English fashion of pinning 

 them with the tips resting on the paper of the drawers — a plan 

 which is clearly objectionable, as it damages the cilia and offers 

 great facilities to mites to eat it off. 



From the Antipodes we have also evidence of an extended love 

 for the cultivation of our subject. The establishment of the 

 " Linnean Society of New South Wales" is especially worthy of 

 notice. The second and third parts of the 'Proceedings' of. 

 that body contain memoirs on the Araneides of the Chevers 



