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also took eggs, but did not have the proper environment to raise 

 them. I took long series of Cicindela scutellaris, formosa and 

 venusta, and an exceptional lot of Cremastochilus nitens. Also 

 lots of Stephanuca pilipennis, Plocamus difformis, Onthophagus 

 guatemaliensis Bates, and Cotalpa sitbcribrata Wickham. I 

 took three Bradycinetus fossor. I took also imagos, larvse and 

 pupae of Phytonomus eximius with an interesting Hymenopterous 

 parasite at Lincoln, Kans., sending all the material to Dr. E. G, 

 Titus. — Warren Knaus^ McPherson, Kan. 



OBITUARY. 



By the death of J. Turner Brakeley, aged sixty-eight, at his 

 home, Lahaway Plantations, Ocean County, New Jersey, there 

 has been taken from the world an unusual and beautiful char- 

 acter. The only child of Rev. J. Henry Brakeley, founder and 

 life-long president of Bordentown Female College, he was gradu- 

 ated from Princeton in 1869 and from the Harvard Law School 

 in 1872. On the completion of his studies he withdrew to the 

 cranberry estates at Lahaway, which he never left except for 

 brief annual trips connected with business, mostly to Bordentown, 

 where he owned the mansion built by Jerome Bonaparte. His 

 life was that of a recluse. No highway approaches the land 

 which he loved with the passionate intensity of a Thoreau, and 

 which is of singular beauty as well as interest, having probably 

 the largest variety of flora and fauna of any place of equal size 

 in the country. He died as he had hoped to do, surrounded by 

 the simple folk of his countryside, his only neighbors and those 

 of his choosing. No printed work has come from him. He was 

 one of the poets through whose soul surged a beautiful and un- 

 written song. 



Possessed of ample means, he reserved a few hundred dollars 

 a year to meet his simple wants. The rest was held as a trust to 

 be expended as need be with an idea of general " uplift," — his 

 own phrase. His sound judgment in public and private affairs, 



