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lashed together. If they settle elsewhere in Kurope, as they have done 

 at La Rochelle, a new peril will be added to life and civilization. — Leisure 

 Hour. 



We have received the following account of Prof. Townsend's entomo- 

 logical excursion during the past Summer: We left Last Cruces June 12th 

 with four-horse team and covered government ambulance wagon. Cross- 

 ing the Rio Grande at Rincon, we drove northwest through Cuchilla 

 Negra, the length of the Canada Alamosa, and on to Luera Spring. 

 Here we turned west, crossed the Continental Divide, passed between 

 the San Francisco and Datil ranges, and arrived in Springerville, Ariz., 

 June 24th. From this place we drove north, followed down the Little 

 Colorado River as far as the "San Francisco Wash," passing through 

 Holbrook and Winslow on the way, and arrived in Flagstaff July ist. 

 By previous arrangement we were joined here by Prof Tourney, of Tuc- 

 son, and Mr. Cordley, of Washington, who had a similar outfit to our 

 own, and together we proceeded to the Hance place on the rim of the 

 Grand Canon, seventy miles north of Flagstaff. Mr. Cordley and myself 

 spent four days and nights down in the canon collecting, about 4000 to 

 6600 feet below the rim. Returning, we spent two days collecting and 

 climbing the San Francisco Mountain, the. top of which is about 13,000 

 feet above sea level. We parted from Prof. Tourney and Mr. Cordley at 

 Flagstaff, visited the petrified forest southwest of Navajo Springs, fol- 

 lowed up the Zuni River, spent three days in the Pueblo, visited Inscrip- 

 tion Rock, and returned by the Rio Grande Valley to Las Cruces, Au- 

 gust 14th. The whole trip amounted to a drive of over 1200 miles. My 

 companions were a fellow-professor and one of our students. About 

 1 100 specimens of insects were collected by myself, representing nearly 

 one-third that number of species. These were all pinned and labeled in 

 the field. There was collected besides a considerable amount of alcoholic 

 material and galls. I am preparing some papers on the results of the 

 collecting in the Grand Cafion, and on the San Francisco Mountain, which 

 will be published in due time. 



It may interest you to know that the first scientific organization in New 

 Mexico has just come into existence. It is known as "The New Mexico 

 Society for the Advancement of Science," and will meet once a month in 

 Las Cruces. The following officers have been elected for the remainder 

 of the current year: President, C. H. Tyler Townsend; Vice-President, 

 F. C. Barker; Recording Secretary, E. O. Wooton; Corresponding Sec- 

 retary, Arthur Goss; Treasurer, H. D. Bowman; Members of Executive 

 Committee, A. E. Blount and J. P. Owen. The Society hopes to publish 

 an annual numero of its proceedings. — C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



A Flight of Danais archippus Fabr.— The Cleveland (Ohio) Daily 

 Press of Sept. 21, 1892, states that on the 19th inst. in the afternoon, "a 

 multitude of butterflies visited Cleveland on their way South. There 

 were swarms upon swarms of them, and for a while they completely filled 

 the air. They were of the large, brown variety, of the milkweed butter- 



