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at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Here she made the ac- 

 quaintance of Dr. Edward J. Nolan, librarian of the Academy, 

 who has paid a warm tribute to her memory in the columns of 

 the Philadelphia Public Ledger for February 28, 191 6. Dr. 

 Nolan relates that it was Miss Fielde's desire for work in 

 biology that led to the foundation of the Biological Department 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, although she never became 

 a student therein. 



She returned to China in September, 1885. but in October, 

 1892, engaged in science teaching in New York and studied 

 and lectured during the summers of 1900-07 at Wood's Hole 

 These years witnessed her chief entomological work — on the 

 senses, activities and behavior of ants. She set forth the view 

 that "the antennae of the ant are a pair of compound noses, 

 certain segments having each a special function," restating it 

 in a paper On certain vesicles found in the integument of ants 

 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia for January, 1915, accompanied by a list of twen- 

 ty-three papers which she had published, chiefly in the same 

 Proceedings and in The Biological BuUetin, on this group of 

 insects. Her interest in the olfactory sense developed by these 

 researches is to be seen in two other short papers in the Pro- 

 ceedings for 191 5, one concerning dogs, the other entitled A 

 new hypothesis concerning butterflies. 



These were not Miss Fielde's only contribution to entomolo- 

 gy, however, for during her second period of residence in China 

 she addressed to the Academy brief communications on the 

 preparation of Fishing lines from the Silk-Glands of Lepidop- 

 teroiis Larvae by the Chinese {Proceedings, 1886, pp. 298-9), 

 On an Aquatic Larva [HydropsycheF] and its Case (1887, pp. 

 293-4), An Aquatic Insect, or I nsect-Lanm having jointed dor- 

 sal appendages (1888, pp. 129-130, plate viii) and On an Insect- 

 Larva Habitation (I. c, pp. 176-177), all recording observa- 

 tions made at Swatow. 



P. P. C. 

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Correction. Ent. News, vol. xxvi, p. 445, 13th line from bottom, 

 for "1892" read "1852." 



