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all four of the collegians ran away. They readily acknowled they acted 

 very foolishly in not staying and attempting to put out the fire, but said 

 they lost their heads. All four undertook to reimburse Mr. Verrall for 

 any loss and expense their action had entailed, and with this understand- 

 ing Mr. Verrall expressed himself satisfied. — Standard, (London), June 

 17, 1903. 



Herbert H. Smith has given up entomology and collecting and has 

 sold his collection to the Carnegie Museum, at Pittsburgh, for three 

 thousand dollars. 



The Miner is in receipt from an agricultural bureau, of a neat little 

 portrait, life size, of the cotton boll weevil whose depredations in southern 

 cotton fields bid fair to make the product of the silk-worm cheap in com- 

 parison with the " fruit of the loom." The picture represents this enemy 

 of "King Cotton" as a rather ungraceful oblong creature, much out of 

 proportion, with six very crooked legs and a long sword-like beak. A 

 fierce mustache, consisting of one hair, curls sarcastically on either side 

 its mouth, above which the eyes, somewhat resembling shoe buttons, 

 glare defiance at the world at large. The picture has been hung in the 

 Miner's art gallery and the cotton growers of Montana are welcome to 

 inspect it at any tiine free of charge. The people of Montana cannot 

 fail to be as appreciative of the gift as were the natives of a tropical isle 

 for a consignment of warmingpans once bestowed upon them. — Butte 

 {Montana) Miner. 



On page 41 of your January number I notice a note on the distribu- 

 tion of Catopsilia eubule. Two Sundays ago I had three young boys at 

 my house to see my collection, and they had with them two females and 

 one male of this species which they had captured in Bridgewater, Mass. 

 Mr. S. F. Denton, of Wellesley, has seen these, and I think he was as 

 much surprised as I that they should have been captured in this State. — 

 Andrew G. Weeks, Jr. 



Doings of Societies. 



At a meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, held December 17, 1903, 

 Dr. D. M. Castle, presided, and twelve per.sons were present. 

 The following gentlemen were elected to serve as officers for 

 the present year : Director, Philip Laurent ; Vice Director, 

 H. W. Wenzel ; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Conservator- 

 Recorder, Henry Skinner; Secretary, Frank Haimbach. Pub- 

 lication Committee, J. H. Ridings, C. W. Johnson. 



