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speaker then went into details concerning the migrating habit 

 of Danais plexippus. 



Mr. Harbeck referred to the fact that insects are not infre- 

 quently cited and recorded in error. As an instance of this he 

 mentioned Carahus nemorelliis reported from Maplewood in 

 the "New Jersey list." 



Mr. Banks cited the Coddling Moth as illustrating the liabil- 

 ity of error in stating the number of broods of an insect from 

 dates of capture without actual breeding experiments from 

 known females. The question of variation was generally dis- 

 cussed. — Henry Skinner, Recorder, 



OBITUARY 



Dr. Edward Palmer. 



The daily newspapers announce the death of this veteran 

 botanical explorer and collector at his home, 207 Twelfth 

 Street, Southwest, Washington, D. C, on April 10, 191 1. He 

 was born in England, January 12, 1821, came to America at 

 the age of eighteen and settled first at Cleveland. Ohio. An 

 interesting sketch of his life by W. E. Safford, read in cele- 

 bration of his eightieth birthday, was published in the Popular 

 Science Monthly for April, 191 1. Although Dr. Palmer was 

 primarily engaged in botanical researches, he made collections 

 of animals also, including insects, some of his specimens of 

 these last being in the Museum in Cambridge and Washington 

 (see page 198 of this News). His most noteworthy expeditions 

 were to various parts of the southwestern United States and 

 to Mexico. His zeal was maintained throughout his long life, 

 as in 1910 he collected near Tampico, Tamaulipas. Mexico. 



Prof. Felix Plateau. 



A recent number of the Zoologischer Anseiger informs us 

 of the death of this distinguished physiologist and entomologist 

 on March 4, 1911, in Ghent, where he had long been a Pro- 



