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A New Entomological Society. — The Hawaiian Entomological 

 Society was formed December 15, 1904, and the first meeting held Janu- 

 ary 26, 1905. The present officers are : President, R. C. L. Perkins ; 

 Vice-President, G. W. Kirkaldy ; Secretary-Treasurer, Jacob Kotinsky ; 

 Executive Committee, Otto H. Swezey and D. L. Van Dine ; Editors of 

 the Proceedings, G. W. Kirkaldy and Otto H. Swezey. Volume I of the 

 Proceedings (for the year 1905) has been issued. It contains important 

 and interesting articles, mostly relating to the local fauna. We wish the 

 new Society great success and prosperity. 



As stemmed polyphemus cocoons are in order, your readers may be 

 interested in my experience. I have been collecting about seven winters 

 in Worcester and Amherst, Mass., and in that time have found on the 

 average about two attached cocoons each season. All these, except one, 

 were on white birches {alba, weeping, populifolia and papyraced). That 

 one was on a swamp maple. Of these all, except one on B. popmlifolia, 

 were accidentally attached, but that one had a regular stem like a prome- 

 thea, but very weak and short. This experience seems just the reverse 

 of Dr. Kunze's, as not one attached cocoon was on oak, or overhanging 

 a street. On the other hand I have found caterpillars as common on 

 such trees as the others. A few weeks ago I found a promethea on some 

 cultivated bush with sessile leaves, which was made without a stem, but 

 attached directly. — Wm. T. M. Forbes. 



All the material for my book "The Butterflies of the West Coast" 

 in the hands of the publishers, including finished books, plates, stereo- 

 type plates, etc., all is doubtless gone up in smoke, and nothing saved 

 except a few copies in my hands here. I have not yet had positive infor- 

 mation from them, but as they were in the centre of the burnt district I 

 have no hope of anything having been saved. The stereotype plates 

 being lost, the book will not be reprinted. — W. G. Wright. 



Dr. McCook's health is so far restored as to permit him to resume 

 pulpit and platform duty. He therefor announces that he will accept 

 engagements for special lectures, singly or in courses, in theological 

 seminaries, universities, colleges, academies, private schools, scientific 

 clubs and literary associations. 



A list of subjects is appended for selection. An early correspondence is 

 invited, which may be addressed to Dr. Henry C. McCook, Devon, Pa. : 

 1. The Home and Habits of American Ants. A general view of ant life 

 (illustrated) ; 2. Mound-making Ants of the Alleghenies (illustrated) ; 3. 

 Agricultural and Harvesting Ants (illustrated) ; 4. The Honey Ants of 

 the Garden-of-the-gods (illustrated) ; 5. Carpenter, Cutting and Slave- 

 holding Ants (illustrated) ; 6. Maternal Industry and Baby-life of Spiders 

 (illustrated) ; 7. Trap-door Spiders— their Architecture and Enemies 

 (illustrated). 



