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abundant." This seems to be the only recorded observation 

 which at all parallels that of Dean Cone's party. 



After all, there is really nothing very surprising about these 

 observations. Almost any insect which flies strongly is apt to 

 be carried up by currents of wind and deposited upon glaciers, 

 and when these insects are unusually abundant such remark- 

 ed ble occurrences upon glaciers as reported by Dean Cone are 

 likely to happen. As a matter of fact, in certain regions such 

 carriage by upward currents of air may have an appreciable 

 effect upon the temporary abundance of certain species at 

 lower levels. In a recent paper, for example. Dr. W. M. 

 Wheeler,* referring to the finding of dealated queens of 

 L'wmetopum apiciilatiuu Mayr at an elevation of 9,400 feet, 

 concludes that these individuals "had been wafted to this alti- 

 tude the previous summer, and had perished, probably from 

 cold, while endeavoring to found new colonies." He further 

 adds : 



These observations strengthen Forel's and my contention that in 

 mountainous regions queen ants are often borne up by air-currents to 

 elevations at which the physical conditions will not permit them to 

 establish the species. It is very probable that this process continues 

 year after year and that it may constitute an appreciable drain on 

 certain ant populations at lower altitudes. 



Change of Address. 



The following change of address is requested: from E. D. Ball, 

 State Entomologist, Madison, Wisconsin, to E. D. Ball, Department of 

 Zoology and Entomology, Ames, Iowa. 



Honors to Entomologists. 

 Dr. F. D. Godman, surviving founder and editor of the Biologia Cen- 

 trali-Aniericaua, has been awarded the gold medal of the Linnean So- 

 ciety of London, according to The Entomologist, which also states that 

 Dr. Paul Marchal, President of the Entomological Society of France, 

 was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London on March 20, 1918. Prof. Auguste Lameere, of the University 

 of Brussels, has been elected a foreign correspondent of the Institut 

 de France (Academy of Sciences), according to the Bulletin of the 

 Entomological Society of France (1918, page 181). 



*"Notes on the Marriage Flights of Some Sonoran Ants," Psyche, 

 Vol. XXIV, No. 6, pp. 177-180. 



