AUTUMN 33 



Distinctions of that nature are almost 

 every-day matters with her. How many 

 species already bear her name she has never 

 told me. I suspect they are so numerous 

 and so frequent that she herself can hardly 

 keep track of them. Think of the pleasure 

 of walking about the earth and being able 

 to say, as an insect chirps, " Listen ! that 

 is one of my species, — named after me, 

 you know." Such specific honors, I say, 

 are common in her case, — common almost 

 to satiety. But to have a genus named for 

 her, — that was glory of a different rank, 

 glory that can never fall to the same person 

 but once ; for generic names are unique. 

 Once given, they are patented, as it were. 

 They can never be used again — for genera, 

 that is — in any branch of natural science. 

 To our Franconia entomologist this honor 

 came, by what seemed a poetic justice, in 

 the Lepidoptera, the order in which she be- 

 gan her researches. Hers is a genus of 

 moths. I trust they are not of the kind that 

 *' corrupt." 



Thinking how above measure I should be 

 exalted in such circumstances, I am surprised 



