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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VI. DECEMBER, 1895. No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



Henry Shimer, A.M., M.D 305 Editorial 322 



The Agricultural Ant 307 Economic Entomology 323 



VVolcott — Coleoptera of Central Illinois 309 Notes and News 325 



Hornig — Wind and light vs. cocoon , Entomological Literature 326 



mimicry 311 Doings of Societies 330 



Daggett— Notes on collecting Coleop.... 311 Entomological Section 331 



Longley— Some notes on May and June Smith— Desc. of new sp. of Noctuidae.. 332 



collecting, etc 314 Dyar — Larva of Harrisimemna 340 



Slosson — Mt. Washington insects 316 



HENRY SHIMER, A.M., M.D. 



Dr. Shimer was born September i, 1828, in West Vincent, 

 Chester County, Pa., and died July 28, 1895, at Mt. Carroll, 111. 

 He was known in the community in which he lived as a student, 

 scholar, scientist, physician and distinguished citizen, and seemed 

 to be the friend of every one. He was a conspicuous man, a' 

 notable personage, a distinctive and impressive personality, a 

 man of large physical proportions, of massive brain and great 

 intellectual powers. He had an appetency for the truth, and 

 early in life showed an intense hunger for knowledge which re- 

 sulted in his becoming a student, a learner, and a scholar of large 

 and varied attainments: but he was not a scholastic, not so much 

 a student of books, highly as he valued them, as of the great 

 library of Nature and human life, which urged him on to know 

 their hidden facts and treasures. The scalpel, crucible and mi- 

 croscope became in his hands effective for this work. He desired 

 that others should share in his knowledge, and published freely 

 in scientific journals technical monographs for scholars, and has 

 widely published, in popular form in newspapers, valuable infor- 

 mation on varied subjects. As an original investigator and dis- 

 coverer he was widely known in America and Europe, and his 

 correspondence on these subjects was with scholars in different 



