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tors, but they are of secondary importance. Robertson con- 

 cedes all that is required, when he says, "The average flight 

 is shorter and there are more of them with a short flight." A 

 large number of oligotropic bees are of small size, as has been 

 pointed out in the case of Perdita. I believe that I have suf- 

 ficient evidence to establish my statement that Halictoides 

 novae-angliae, a monotropic visitor here of the pickerel weed, 

 has a weak flight. I have observed hundreds of these bees 

 during a series of years, but I have never seen them fly far 

 nor have I ever taken them on any other flower. But to quib- 

 ble over minor details seems unnecessary in the absence of any 

 evidence of severe competition among the solitary bees for 



flower food. 



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A Locustid Laying Eggs (Orth.) 

 On October 24, 1900, I observed at Annapolis, Maryland, a very 

 common locustid ovipositing in a hollow weed. It first made an open- 

 ing with its strong mandibles, slipping the ovipositor through it, then 

 laying. An opening was made for each successive egg. — A. A. 



GiRAULT. 



Comstock Memorial Library Fund. 

 Exercises in connection with the presentation of the Comstock 

 Memorial Library Fund to Cornell University, on the occasion of 

 the retirement of Professor John Henry Comstock at the close of 

 forty-one years of active service, were held on Saturday, June 13, 

 IQ14, at three o'clock, in the Assembly Room, Roberts Hall, Cornell 

 University. Addresses were made by Professors S. H. Gage, L. H. 

 Bailey, and W. R. Lazenby, and by Dr. L. O. Howard, and a letter 

 from President David Starr Jordan was read by Mrs. Rubv G. 

 Smith. The metnorial was presented by Prof. J. G. Needham, 

 accepted by Prof. Comstock, presented by him to Cornell and ac- 

 cepted on behalf of the University by President J. G. Schurmann. 



Proposed Monument to J. Henri Fabre. 

 A public subscription, under the patronage of M. R. Poincare, Presi- 

 dent of the French Republic, has been instituted to purchase Harmas, 

 the residence of J. Henri Fabre, to convert it into a museum and to 

 erect a monument to him at Serignan. The appeal, which has been 

 widely distributed, says : "Tn respectful admiration for the world- 

 wide work of the entomological savant your co-operation and suVh 

 scription are solicited to aid in perpetuating the memory of the most 

 modest and most genial of workers. The assistance of yourself and 

 of all friends of science is counted on for a work whose sole end is 

 the glorification of Science and of Letters." Subscriptions should be 

 sent to M. Henry de la Paillonne, Mayor of Serignan, Vaucluse, 

 France. The honorary committee on this project includes, among 

 others. Professors Perrier and Rouvier of the Museum of Natural 

 History at Paris, Dr. G. V. Legros, biograplier of Fabre, and M. 

 Rostand, the famous dramatist. 



