466 Scientific News. [June, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The eleventh number of the Bibliographical Contribution of 
the Library of Harvard University is on the entomological libra- 
ries of the United States, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. The largest is 
that of the Zodlogical Museum at Cambridge, numbering about 
2000 volumes and 3000 pamphlets; the Public Library of Boston 
contains about 650 volumes and 75 pamphlets, that of the Boston 
Society of Natural History ọco volumes and nearly 550 pam- 
phlets; that of the American Entomological Society at Philadel- 
phia, 1728 volumes and 336 pamphlets; of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, 956 volumes and 554 pamphlets ; 
of private libraries, that of Mr. Scudder comprises 765 volumes 
and very nearly 2000 pamphlets; Prof. C. V. Riley’s about 700 
volumes and about 3000 pamphlets; Dr. J. L. LeConte’s about 
700 volumes and 800 pamphlets; Prof. A. S. Packard’s 470 vol- 
umes and 550 pamphlets; and Mr. P. R. Uhler’s contains over 300 
volumes and about 500 pamphlets ; while the library of the Pea- 
body Institute at Baltimore, contains 800 volumes and 200 pam- 
phlets. Important libraries of entomological works are possessed 
by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences; the Congressional 
Library, the Entomological Division of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment, at Washington, the Astor Library, and that of Yale Col- 
lege. 
— Jacob Stauffer died in Lancaster, Penna., on March 22d, in 
the seventy-second year of his age. Mr. Stauffer was a naturalist 
by instinct, and a man of various natural gifts. He was born in 
Lancaster county, Penna., and received a common school educa- 
tion. He followed various avocations, but devoted a good deal 
of time to natural history. e was a good local botanist, and 
early made some important observations on the parasitism of cer- 
tain species of our native Scrophulariacee. He discovered sev- 
eral new species of fishes; one a percoid, the Etheostoma peltatum 
Stauffer; another, the singular blind catfish, Gronias nigrilabris. 
His most extended studies were made in entomology, and his 
innumerable observations on the habits and metamorphoses of 
insects were recorded in large manuscript books, illustrated with 
numerous colored drawings executed by himself. It is to be 
hoped that these may be in some way rendered available to sci- 
ence by some competent entomologist. Mr. Stauffer was a man 
of much native refinement, and both amiable in his manners and 
just in his dealings. His name is recorded in the fauna of Mex- 
ico in a species of tree-frog, Myla stauffert Cope. 
~— The Diary of a Bird, freely translated into human language, 
by H. D. Minot, published by A. Williams & Co., Boston, 188° 
is very well done. The complaints that avian flesh is heir to from 
the attacks of their historian, if not always true friend, man, a 
minate in the following statistics on page 33: In the State Of- 
