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  Miscellaneous 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  Entomological 
  Club. 
  

  

  L. 
  0. 
  Howard 
  : 
  The 
  Encyrtinae 
  with 
  branched 
  antennae. 
  

   . 
  H. 
  G. 
  Hubbard 
  : 
  Insect 
  life 
  in 
  the 
  hot 
  springs 
  of 
  Yellowstone 
  National 
  Park. 
  

  

  E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz 
  : 
  Preliminary 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  insect 
  fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Salt 
  Lake, 
  

   Utah. 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Lintner: 
  On 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  Pear 
  midge, 
  Diploris 
  pyrivora. 
  

   Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Pear 
  tree 
  Psylla, 
  Psylla 
  pyricola, 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  River 
  Valley. 
  On 
  

   the 
  eye-spotted 
  bud 
  moth, 
  Tinetocera 
  ocellana, 
  in 
  Western 
  New 
  York. 
  On 
  some 
  

   of 
  our 
  Orgyias. 
  Exhibition 
  of 
  the 
  luminous 
  females 
  of 
  Phengodes, 
  species. 
  

  

  J. 
  B. 
  Smith 
  : 
  Note 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  Xyleborus 
  dispar. 
  Habits 
  of 
  Volucella 
  

   fasciata. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  classification 
  of 
  the 
  Lepidoptera. 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  

   genus 
  Cucullia. 
  Staining 
  insect 
  structures. 
  

  

  E. 
  W. 
  Claypole 
  : 
  Means 
  of 
  preserving 
  larvae 
  for 
  class 
  use. 
  A 
  substitute 
  for 
  

   cork. 
  

  

  H. 
  E. 
  Weed 
  : 
  Screw 
  worm 
  feeding 
  on 
  vegetable 
  matter. 
  

  

  D. 
  S. 
  Kellicott 
  : 
  Notes 
  on 
  two 
  borers 
  destructive 
  of 
  mountain 
  ash. 
  

  

  B. 
  P. 
  Mann 
  : 
  The 
  bibliography 
  on 
  Entomology. 
  

  

  C. 
  V. 
  Riley 
  : 
  Notes 
  on 
  Sphecius 
  speciosus. 
  Some 
  interesting 
  Phylloxera?. 
  

   Notes 
  on 
  the 
  larval 
  habits 
  of 
  Megaphycis. 
  

  

  M. 
  E. 
  Murtfeldt: 
  Longevity 
  and 
  vitality 
  of 
  Ixodes 
  and 
  Trombidium. 
  Mod- 
  

   ification 
  of 
  habit 
  in 
  paper 
  wasps. 
  

  

  2. 
  The 
  Uritish 
  Association. 
  — 
  The 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Association 
  was 
  opened 
  at 
  Cardiff, 
  Wales, 
  on 
  Wednesday, 
  the 
  

   19th 
  of 
  August. 
  The 
  able 
  address 
  of 
  the 
  President, 
  Professor 
  

   William 
  Huggins, 
  treating 
  of 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  Astronomy 
  through 
  

   spectroscopic 
  observations, 
  is 
  published 
  in 
  full 
  in 
  Nature 
  of 
  

   August 
  20th. 
  The 
  reader 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  following 
  

   numbers 
  of 
  Nature 
  for 
  the 
  addresses, 
  also 
  of 
  the 
  Presidents 
  of 
  

   Sections, 
  and 
  for 
  abstracts 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  papers 
  pre- 
  

   sented. 
  The 
  next 
  meeting 
  will 
  be 
  held 
  at 
  Edinburgh, 
  under 
  the 
  

   Presidency 
  of 
  Sir 
  Archibald 
  Geikie, 
  commencing 
  on 
  the 
  3d 
  of 
  

   August, 
  1892. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  William 
  Ferrel, 
  the 
  eminent 
  meteorologist, 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  

   in 
  Kansas 
  City, 
  Missouri, 
  on 
  the 
  18th 
  of 
  September, 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  

   of 
  seventy-four. 
  He 
  commenced 
  his 
  active 
  scientific 
  career 
  in 
  

   1857, 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  made 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  the 
  Ameri- 
  

   can 
  Ephemeris 
  and 
  Nautical 
  Almanac. 
  This 
  position 
  he 
  held 
  

   for 
  ten 
  years, 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  appointed 
  to 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Coast 
  Survey. 
  In 
  1882 
  he 
  was 
  made 
  assistant, 
  with 
  the 
  rank 
  

   of 
  professor, 
  in 
  the 
  Signal 
  Service 
  Bureau, 
  where 
  he 
  remained 
  

   until 
  October, 
  1886. 
  Some 
  of 
  his 
  most 
  important 
  work 
  was 
  

   was 
  done 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  Coast 
  Survey; 
  he 
  invented 
  the 
  

   maxima 
  and 
  minima 
  tide-tide 
  predicting 
  machine, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  

   used 
  in 
  predicting 
  the 
  tides. 
  His 
  list 
  of 
  published 
  works 
  include 
  

   a 
  number 
  of 
  volumes 
  devoted 
  to 
  researches 
  on 
  the 
  tides, 
  meteoro- 
  

   logical 
  problems, 
  etc.; 
  of 
  these, 
  a 
  volume 
  on 
  Recent 
  Advances 
  

   in 
  Meterology 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  1883, 
  and 
  a 
  Popular 
  Treatise 
  on 
  

   the 
  Winds 
  — 
  a 
  work 
  of 
  marked 
  value 
  — 
  in 
  1889. 
  The 
  recent 
  

   volumes 
  of 
  this 
  Journal 
  contain 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  important 
  memoirs 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Ferrel 
  upon 
  thermal 
  radiation, 
  cyclones, 
  tornadoes 
  and 
  

   related 
  subjects, 
  chiefly 
  in 
  terrestrial 
  physics. 
  

  

  