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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. vl OCTOBER, 1895. No. 8. 



CONTENTS: 



Prof. C. V. Riley 241 ! Editorial 254 



Smith— Some entomological notes 243 ' Economic Entomology 255 



Osburn — Rhopalocera of Tennessee 245 Notes and News 26 1 



Sfiles— Spherularia bombi in America.. 248 Entomological Literature 265 



Cunningham— List of butterflies, etc... 251 < Doings of Societies 271 



Davidson— Californian bees and wasps. 252 1 



Prof. C. V. RILEY, M. A., Ph.D. 



It is with profound regret that we pubh'sh these lines relating- 

 to the death of Prof. C. V. Riley, who was an Englishman by- 

 nativity, having been born in London in 1843. His boyhood was 

 passed in the village of Walton, on the Thames. He subse- 

 quently attended schools in France and Germany. For six years 

 he studied on the Continent of Europe, and this is the secret of 

 his familiarity with the French and German languages, and of 

 his power of speaking them, with exceptional accuracy. Two 

 passions characterized his boyhood — one for collecting insects, 

 the other for drawing and painting. 



The early loss of his father, and the care at school of a younger 

 brother, developed in young Riley a self-reliance and sense of 

 responsibility which gave a practical turn to his views, and con- 

 vinced him that the classical education he was getting lacked 

 many elements of utility. So, at the age of seventeen, he sailed 

 for New York, where, after a seven weeks' voyage, he arrived 

 with little means and 'I a stranger in a strange land." He went 

 West and settled upon a farm in Illinois. Here he remained for 

 four years, and acquired an experience of practical agriculture. 

 About the time of his majority he commenced journalistic work 

 in Chicago, where, in connection with his work on the paper, he 

 gave special attention to botany and entomology. His writings, 



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