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would have missed them." Every museum collection, unless 

 watched with argus eyes, suffers from this kleptomania. Stories 

 are told by men still living of the dispersal of the Motschulsky 

 t)^pes. A coin in the hand of a venal attendant and a bug missing. 

 " A paltry bug ! What are these lunatics who give up a rouble 

 for one ! " Whole boxes occasionally went. Last winter a dis- 

 covery was made that there were 285 boxes of Motschulsky ma- 

 terial stored in the basement of the Museum, but in bad condition. 



Among other notable contributors to the Moscow school, F. 

 W. Maklin, employed in the Museum, writing from 1845 ^o 1856, 

 contributed 82 American species; the two Sahlbergs, of Finland, 

 worked over beetles, publishing in Moscow from 1817 to 1848; 

 von Gebler from 1817 to 1859, has 3 American species; Menetries, 

 head of the St. Petersburg Museum, was a lepidopterist but he 

 found the opportunity to describe 8 American beetles ; he was an 

 exception in Russian Entomology, being Parisian by birth and 

 education : von Nordmann worked over Lepidoptera and Staphy- 

 linidae in Helsingfors from 1837 to 1851, contributing 6 American 

 species and 3 genera of beetles. Morawsky was the successor of 

 Menetries, represented by one American beetle. Baron Chaudoir 

 contributed largely to the glory of the Moscow school, but he 

 really belongs to a later age — that of Leconte in his prime. 

 Chronicle here, however, that, after various vicissitudes, the Cara- 

 bidae from the famous collection of Dejean came into the posses- 

 sion of Baron Chaudoir, whence they were bought after his death 

 by Rene Oberthur, of France, who still owns them. It must be 

 remembered, also, that there were three Sahlbergs who were 

 coleopterists. The youngest belongs to our own generation. 



WHAT I FOUND UNDER A PILE OF GRASS. 



By Charles Dury, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



About June 3, while I was absent my son mowed the lawn and 

 carried the cut blue grass into the back yard, throwing it on a bare 

 spot, where he left it, boylike,, his motto being : Never do today 



Lwhat you can do tomorrow. To refresh himself after his labor 



