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five hundred dollars in his hands to be used for archzeological pur- 
poses. As the expedition will be limited by the amount of funds 
subscribed for the purpose, we trust that some of our liberal coun- 
trymen will contribute to keep Prof. Hartt in the field as long as 
possible. Subscriptions will be received by Major O. C. James, 
P. O. box 6001, N. Y., or by Mr. E. G. Putnam, Business Manager , 
of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
From Prof. Hartt’s very extensive knowledge of the country 
and native languages, his well known accuracy of observation and 
former extended field work in the geology of North America, we 
believe that his return will make known many facts of the greatest 
importance to science, and that both Mr. Morgan and the Cornell 
University will be proud of the pesults attained by their indefati- 
gable worker. 
None of the entomological collections in Paris, says Petites 
Nouvelle Entomologiques, have suffered much. Those of the 
Museum were unharmed, and those of MM. Chaudoir, Sallé, Bois- 
duval were also uninjured. 
Mr. G. R. Crotch is to spend a year collecting insects in Cali- 
fornia and Oregon, and thence proceed to Australia and other 
places in the East. Dr. LeConte is to work up the American 
beetles collected by him. 
Dr. Boisduval has been at work during and since the siege of 
Paris in finishing his work on the Sphinges of the world. This 
` work, which will fill up one of the gaps in the Suite à Buffon, will 
form the fourth volume of the Histoire Naturelle des Lepidoptères; _ 
it will comprise the Sphingidæ, Castniæ, and Agaristæ. 
The great work by the Messrs. Felder on the Lepidoptera of the 
Novara (the Austrian) exploring expedition will be completed this 
year. It will contain a complete classification of the moths, and 
will supplement Guénée’s work on them. 
Our next issue, which will probably be out by the middle of the 
month, will constitute Nos. 8 and 9, containing the Address of 
President Hunt before the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and the papers read before the Natural History 
Sections of the Indianapolis meeting. The publication of this 
double number will enable us to close our volumes with the close 
of each year; an end as much desired by our subscribers as by the 
proprietors. 
