202 Notes and News. Yy^ 



Cassin and Stevens, i8j2. Cassin, i8jj. 



[i] Cjanocorax luxuosus (Lesson). i. Cyanocorax luxuosus(Les.son). 



[2] Melanerpes formicivoms 2. Melanerpes formicivorus 



(Swainson). (Swains.). 



[3] Chamaea fasciata (Gambel). 3. Lophophanes atricristatus 



(Cassin). 



[4] Lophophanes atricristatus 4. Cyrtonyx Massena (Lesson). 



(Cassin). 



[5] Cr^ytonyx Massena (Lesson). 5. Larus Heermanni (Cassin). 



The present copy bears in pencil, in Cassin's handwriting, this note : 

 " Suppressed number." 



It is evident that this " suppressed number " must be cited as a separate 

 work, distinct from Cassin's 'Illustrations, etc' (1853-55), as it differs in 

 so many respects from it, and has a joint authorship. The suppression 

 of a work does not inean that it is not citable as long as one or more 

 copies exist in a place of reference. 



William J. Fox, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Baron Edmond de Selys Longschamps, whose death at the age of 

 87 was announced in the last number of this journal (XVIII, p. 219) was 

 born at Paris, May 25, 1813, though a descendant of an eminent family of 

 Lifege, Belgium, of which country he was not only a citizen but where he 

 was prominent in political affairs, being successively councilor, deputy, 

 senator, vice-president, and finally president of the Belgian Senate. His 

 scientific writings cover a wide field, he being a recognized authority on 

 the Odonata (dragon-flies), and wrote extensively on mammals and birds. 

 His first paper, on the birds and insects of Belgium, was published in 

 1 83 1, when he was eighteen years of age, and was followed by a long series 

 of contributions to scientific literature, including reviews and briefer 

 notices as well as many original monographs, for the most part relating 

 to Vertebrates. In 1839 he contributed a notable paper to the ' Revue 

 Zoologique' on the classification of Passerine birds, and in 1844 appeared 

 his ' Faune Beige,' part one being devoted to the Vertebrate Fauna of 

 Belgium, birds occupying pp. 45-108. A most noteworthy contribution 

 to mammalogy was his ' Etudes de Micromammalogie,' published in 

 1839, — a work so much in advance of the time that its great merits were 



