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Following the lecture, an association was formed as a department of 

 the museum, for the furtherance of entomological interests in the 

 southwest. The purpose of this organization is to popularize the study 

 of the Lepidoptera, and to make the work of the specialists in this 

 line more accessible to the laity. It is felt that in this manner con- 

 verts may be made to the ranks of the scientific Lepidopterists, such 

 as could not be brought about by an organization of technically trained 

 specialists. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



A notice of the life of the Rev. Octavius Pickard-Cam- 

 ERiDGE, who died at Bloxworth, Dorset, England, March g, 

 1917, is given in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Lon- 

 don) for May, 1917. He was born in the same locality No- 

 vember 3, 1828, and was Rector of Bloxworth from 1868 to his 

 death. He graduated from the University of Durham in 1858 

 and had studied law in London previous to entering the min- 

 istry. His publications dealt mainly with the Arachnida : on 

 the Spiders of the Second Yarkand Mission, of the Chal- 

 lenger expedition, of Dorset (but including those of all Brit- 

 ain), of a large part of those described in the Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana; monographs of the British Phalangida and Cher- 

 netidae, etc. He possessed an extensive collection of British 

 Lepidoptera, especially the micros, largely gathered by him- 

 self. He must not be confused with his nephew, Frederick 

 Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1861-1905), who also wrote ex- 

 tensively on Arachnida and was a collaborator on the Biologia. 



Mrs. Helen Grier LeConte, widow of Dr. John L. LeConte 

 (1825-1883), the noted entomologist, died in Philadelphia, Sep- 

 tember 3, 1917, in her seventy-fifth year, at the home of her 

 son. Dr. Robert G. LeConte, a trustee of the University of 

 Pennsylvania and a member of the Council of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences. 



Corrections. 

 Page 335, this volume, line 5, for "191 1" read "1917." 

 The numbers of Plates XXII and XXIII should be transposed. 



