I024 The American Naturalist. [November, 
The rapid increase of the collections in the museum indicates that 
at no distant day farther space will be required to exhibit properly 
even such specimens as can in no way be placed in study collections 
to be kept in storage cabin*ts. It would be far better of course to 
have a special room for the natural history collections, leaving to East 
India Marine Hall the ethnological collections, so full of interest, and 
which form, together with the fine building that contains them, a most 
fitting monument of Salem's commercial period. In this hall, and 
forming part of this collection, is the proper place for many articles 
which even now may be found in the houses, in the attics and sheds 
perhaps, of this neighborhood. These articles are of themselves of 
little value, and of no use where they are, but placed in the museum 
they would each contribute their share towards making the finest 
American ethnological cabinet, and serve to interest and instruct gen- 
erations of Salemites to come. Our citizens ought to think of this and 
see that all such objects are added to the museum, an institution we 
cannot feel too proud to own, and one that is prepared more fully 
than ever to care for and properly preserve these ^elics in the future as 
it has done for eighty years in the past. — The Salem Register. 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
Preliminary Catalogue of and Notes on Nebraska Butter- 
flies.— This list includes species of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, or, prop- 
erly speaking, diurnal butterflies. It includes only specimens col- 
lected by the writer and in the State Normal School collection, 
excepting where it is otherwise stated. Some few species have been 
omitted in order to await further study: 
The names of localities where we have made collections is given by 
counties, those mentioned as from Dodge county being made mostly 
by Mr. E. A. Dodge, of Glencoe. Mr. Dodge has collected in Ne- 
braska during the last fifteen years, and perhaps has the largest and 
finest collection of butterflies within the State. His list and notes, so 
far as we are aware, have not been published. 
The notes ort the dates of appearance of different species were made 
largely during the spring of 1889, — a spring beginning somewhat ear- 
lier than usual,— and are given mostly for Peru, Nemaha county, on the 
Missouri River. 
