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scriptions are given first of the characteristics of the genus, ia all its stages, with a wood 

 cut shewing the neuration, and then of each species, setting forth the colours and mark- 

 ings, size, &c, of the butterfly, the early stages where known and the geographical 

 distribution ; references are also given to the works of Edwards, Scudder and other 

 authors, where fuller information can be obtained. As an introduction to the work 

 illustrated chapters describe in a popular and interesting manner, the life-history and 

 anatomy of butterflies, how to capture, prepare and preserve specimens, their classification 

 and the principal books that have been published upon them in North America Inter- 

 spersed through the volume are short papers for the most part of an amusing character 

 in which the author varies the monotony of descriptive matter by telling some of his 

 experiences or relating some interesting facts regarding these beautiful creatures. We 

 heartily commend the work to our readers and earnestly hope that it may become widely 

 distributed amongst all lovers of nature throughout North America. 0. J. S. B. 



WILLIAM HAGUE HARRINGTON, F.R.S.C. 



One of the excellent portraits prefixed to this volume is that of Mr. William Hague 

 Harrington, one of the ablt st entomologists in Canada. He was born at Sydney, Cape 

 Breton, on the 19th of April, 1852, and received his early education first at a private 

 school and subsequently at the Sydney Academy, where he distinguished himself by close 

 application in all the lines of study, and particularly in mathematics. In 1870 he removed 

 to Ottawa and on the 30th of November of that year was appointed to a clerkship in the 

 Post Office Department, where he has remained ever since, gradually rising until now he 

 is chief clerk in the money order branch. Mr. Harrington has always been an enthusi- 

 astic naturalist and in 1879 he joined with his frir.nd, Dr. James Fletcher, in the forma- 

 tion of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, and has continued to take an active interest 

 in it ever since. During the same year he was elected for the first time a member of the 

 Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and has continued to hold some office in 

 it ever since ; in 1884, 5 and 6 and again in 1892 he was its delegate to the Royal Society 

 of Canada; in 1891 Vice-President and from 1893 to 1895 President of the Society; for 

 some years past he has also been one of the Editing Committee of the Canadian 

 Entomologist. 



Beginning with the year 1879, he has been a regular contributor to these Annual 

 Reports. Among his more important and valuable papers may be mentioned those on 

 Elateridse (1879), Rhyncophora — Weevils (1880), Some Fungi-Eaters (1881), Long-stings, 

 House-flies, Chrysomelida? (1882), Insects affecting Hickory (1883), Saw-flies (1884), Ants, 

 Wasps and Bees (1885), Insects infesting Maple- trees (1886), The nuptialis of Thalessa 

 (1887), Insects afiecting willows (1889), Hymenoptera Parasitica (1890), Notes on Japan- 

 ese insects (1891), Uroceridee (1893), Notes on Canadian Ooleoptera (1894), Winter 

 insects from Swamp-moss (1895) Beetles on Beech (1896), and his Presidential Addresses 

 in 1893 and 4. During all these twenty years he has continually furnished papers of a 

 more technical and scientific character to the pages of the Canadian Entomologist, and 

 has described a considerable number of new species of Hymenoptera. His work is so 

 thorough and accurate that it has been awarded the highest praise by those competent to 

 judge. 



In 1894 Mr. Harrington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He 

 is now in the full maturity of his powers, and, if his life be spared, we may feel sure that 

 the coming years will continue to bear fruit and that Entomological Science will be 

 enriched by the outpouring of his accumulated stores of learning, experience and obser- 

 vation. 



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