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The afternoon and evening with this collection sped all too 

 rapidly, and the following morning our train passed through 

 historic Valley Forge, on its way to Eeading. Had Washing- 

 ton spent a summer in Valley Forge, and been inclined to en- 

 tomology, he could have forgotten many of the nation's trou- 

 bles in the pursuitof insects ; for the thought comes to me, as 

 I remember the beautiful valley, " What a delightful country 

 for a ramble ! ' ' 



To be cordially welcomed to the home of Dr. Hermann 

 Strecker, and to spend the greater portion of a day with the 

 doctor, examining his marvellous and beautiful collection of Lep- 

 idoptera, was a treat which I had not even dreamed of realizing. 

 We looked at drawer after drawer of great beauties, taken 

 from every conceivable nook of the globe. Tailed butterflies 

 and tailless butterflies were there, great butterflies and small, 

 handsome and dull ones, common ones and rare ; in fact, I 

 know no other collection which contains so many uniques. 

 Here are a number of the types of both Argynnis and Catocalce. 

 Time, space and ability prevent my saying half that is in my 

 mind as I think of this and the other great collections viewed 

 during this trip. Dr. Strecker has types or co- types of Ar- 

 gynnis baal, edwardsU, coronis, monticola, arge and knemhild, 

 to say nothing of other types and oddities which one is not 

 likely to see elsewhere. 



A few evenings later a dusty, weary traveler might have 

 been seen seeking his way in ''The Smoky City," trying to find 

 the Carnegie Museum, and its director, Dr. W. J. Holland, and 

 gain a glimpse of the collection formerly owned by Mr. W. H. 

 Edwards. Success crowned the seeker's efforts and the next 

 forenoon was spent in fairly reveling over the types of Xorth 

 American Argynnids named by Mr. W. H. Edwards. Just 

 take Smith's list of Lepidoptera and turn to the genus Argyn- 

 nis, and note how many of the names are followed by the 

 abbreviation ''Edw.," and you will know just what types I 

 examined that forenoon. One needs but to see these hundreds 

 of Argynnids, many of them still labeled in Mr. Edwards's 

 handwriting, as I trust they always will be, to recognize the 

 marvellous ability of the man who has contributed so much to 

 our knowledge of the Lepidoptera of North America. Trou- 

 bles in securing proper identification of Argj^nnids have at 



