det 08) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 387 
Lirrte Men or Science —Lord Rosebery’s character sketch of 
ord | in was fine and felt. “What most struck me was his tenacity, 
_Taboriousness, his indefatigable humility. In him was visible none 
itercilionsness and scorn which sometimes embarrass the strong- 
Bt Hotties Without condescension he placed himself at once on a 
‘with his companion. That has seemed to me characteristic of 
ich great men of science as I have met.” We have often wondered 
+ it is that while the great men of science—the Darwins, Kelvins— 
a re like this, the smaller men, the men who have never originated any- 
this but have merely tried to suck in the ideas of the masters, so 
often are impatient, spiteful, jealous, assertive, impressed as profoundly 
by their own superiority as by the stupidity of nine-tenths of humanity. 
» this is the attitude of the lesser fry of science, its sticklebacks and 
dln Red The little scientist is almost invariably 
@ clever by half. He hangs up pictures of Darwin in his study. His 
is of Darwin. Yet he has as little of the heart as he has of the 
ein of that great master—From the Saturday. 
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Sesect Doctor Duges writes: 
metal box you will find a yellow hymenopterous insect, the only 
have been able to obtain, for the people of the country 
fear of it that I can engage no one to collect it. It is 
___ the border of Michoacan. They call it Ahorcadora (strangler) or Em- 
__ borrachadora (that which intoxicates), because its *sting occasions a 
of blood to the head, violent fever, and a sensation of strangula- 
that death arrives in a quarter of an hour if the wound 
This insect is, then, a curious one from the point 
of view of the fright which it causes. You know how prejudiced 
country people are, so that no one can never tell the exact degree of 
truth there is in such stories.” 
Fienr Morus wirn Licuts.—Saxon Authorities Adopt Novel Plan 
To Protect Forests From Pest.—Zittau, Germany, August 8—The Sax- 
on authorities have discovered what seems to be an excellent way to 
put an end to the caterpillar plague which is ravaging local forests, 
by a method of catching the brown nun moths that lay the eggs from 
which caterpillars come in enormous quantities. 
They make use of an electric light lamp, consisting of two power- 
\ ful reflectors placed over a deep receptacle, and powerful exhaust fans, 
erected on top of the municipal electric plant. At night two great 
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