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congenial work, and woe betide the heedless buzzing beetle that crossed 
his path. 
Among his contributions to various scientific periodicals may be men- 
tioned the following :—In the Canadian Naturalist of Feburary, 1858, 
and February, 1860, he published a “ List of Plants found growing in the 
Neighbourhood of Prescott.” To the annals of the Botanical Society of 
Kingston, he furnished a “ List of Plants growing principally within 4 
miles of Prescott, and on Laurentian Rocks west of Brockville, 72 species.” 
In the transactions of the Ottawa Natural History Society, he published 
a “List of Plants collected in the vicinity of Ottawa during the season of 
1866, consisting of 405 species.” Occasional papers also from his pen 
-may be found in the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. In Vol. 1, pages 28 and 
60, he discussed the subject “On a station for Ae/itea Phaeton,” and in 
the same volume, page 45,1s a paper on “ Deurnal Lepidoptera observed in 
the neighbourhood of Ottawa during the season of 1868.” Whether this 
comprises all that he wrote for the ENTOMOLOGIST we are not in a position 
fo say. Writing scientific articles was a kind of amusement he did not 
much relish, and but for the importunities of his friends, even the few 
above mentioned might not have been penned. 
That Mr. Billings had made for himself a substantial reputation as a 
Naturalist, is shown by the fact that he was elected to positions of honor 
by several scientific societies, as a recognition of the valuable services 
rendered by him to the cause of Natural History. He was the first 
President of the Ottawa Natural History Society in 1864. In 1866 he 
was elected one of the Vice-Presidents of the Entomological Society of 
Canada. When the Royal Botanical Society of Canada was organized, hé 
was one of the original Fellows. He was also a corresponding member of 
the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, and of the Portland Society 
of Natural History. 
Mr. Billings died at the comparatively early age of 53, on the 29th of 
September last, deeply regretted by a large circle of warmly attached 
: friencds.—COMMUNICATED. 
SRE Lors 
ABBOTT'S NOTES ON GEORGIAN BUTTERFLIES. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, BOSTON, MASS. 
A few months ago, I spent some time over the rich collection of | 
drawings by Abbott, now-in the British Museum. Thinking that some of 
his memoranda may not be unacceptable to the readers of your maga- 
