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them as middle-aged people, when they were themselves very 



young. How long they occupied this house I have been unable 



to learn; quite likely until the health of the naturalist made a 



removal either more convenient or necessary, and it is probable 



that within its walls much of the work in preparing his third 



volume of American Entomology was accomplished, as well as 



much of his work on American Conchology, six numbers of 



which were printed at New Harmony prior to his death. In 



habits he appeared to have here carried his abstinence to excess, 



and allowed himself only so much and no better food than nature 



absolutely demanded to sustain life, while taxing himself with 



labors entirely out of proportion to his state of health and the 



nature and quantity of his food. Besides his work in the two 



branches of Natural History, Entomology and Conchology, he 



was the resident agent of the whole property of the settlement, 



and as before always ready to give his time and energy to aid 



such as chose to ask him for his services. Entomologists will 



here find the causes for his overlooking several species of insects, 



or at least not mentioning them, though they must have occurred 



abundantly at the time of his residence in New Harmony, and 



within a few miles thereof. People now living, who knew him 



in those days remember him as a mild, unassuming, lovable man, 



whom to meet was to respect, for his name was synonymous with 



honor, and his word always the expression of truth. His wife is 



remembered as a very amiable lady, scrupulously neat in all that 



pertained to herself or her household, though somewhat given to 



complaining. 



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ABErtRATION, VARIETY, RACE and FORM. 



By Dr. Rodrigues Ottolengul 



(Continued from page ii, vol. vi, Ent. News.) 



Prof. A. R. Grote writes : The exact limits between ' ' Varie- 

 ties," "Forms," "Aberrations," have not been absolutely de- 

 fined. These terms, together with ' ' Dimorphic forms, " " Spe- 

 cies Darwinianae," have been employed to designate more or less 

 constant or extensive variation from the type. "Race" and 

 " Form" seem used in the same sense, and are terms applied to 

 variations dependent on locality, the whole species as there oc- 

 curring, showing some departure from the type. Variation in 

 color or marking when occurring among the typical examples is 



