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Tue Worcester Lyceum AND NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION.—The 
annual meeting of this association was held on Wednesday, May 5, 1869. 
The different reports read indicated that the society was in a very flour- 
ishing condition, and that its efforts to make a good cabinet of specimens 
Eg been abus successful. 
mittee on Field Meetings was chosen, with the President as 
ache and a OR ENTRA was manifest on the part of all present to 
make the meetings interesting and profitable to members and the public. 
Nathaniel Paine was elected President, with an able corps of officers. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
ei S., Grand Rapids, Mich.— Your drawing appears to be that of Papilio Mar- 
&. B. — Cynthia Lavinia Harr. is a very rare butterfly throughout New 
Marina, p Harris s specimen wan ikon | in "Milton. Mr. Scudder roger s Ley 
Loser Cape Cod. You say you have captured one in Hamilton cars we are in 
Mr. eese , has Hn 
5 Providence, R ni Ime Index to Vol. I. has not yet been printed. i 
B.S. M. Olney, P w-flies are probably Selandria rose. An account i= 
is given in Packard’s = ~ Guide: to the Study of Insects,” p. 223, and in Harris’s 
tise on Injurious Insect i 
S. M. M., Mauch et Pa.—It would be impossible to give the names of the e birds 
from your descriptions. Send us skins by mail, and we will identify them for Tee 
— M Óo—— 
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