Scudder.] 168 [November 17, 



There are twenty four volumes in all, mostly folios. Four of them 

 contain miscellaneous notes and descriptions of insects arranged 

 according to primary groups, with frequent sketches of the pen and 

 pencil ; a fifth is filled with his memoranda and drawings (many of 

 them colored) of the earlier stages and metamorphoses of insects and 

 particularly of Lepidoptera ; entomological and zoological lectures 

 delivered at Harvard College and elsewhere occupy two volumes ; 

 the manuscript of a portion of the State Report on insects an eighth ; 

 two more are filled with lists of insects received or sent in exchange 

 with his numerous correspondents; the eleventh contains several 

 manuscript lists of the insects of Massachusetts, including the origi- 

 nal of the last one published by the State ; four more are occupied 

 by letters from his correspondents and his replies to them — the basis 

 of his recent posthumous work ; five are filled with laborious extracts 

 from works then almost inaccessible, with tables and abstracts of 

 classifications by various authors and with indices to the writings of 

 Godart, Hiibner, Cramer, Fallen, Donovan, Ochsenheimer and many 

 others; another, a large quarto, embraces a complete alphabetical 

 index to the North American Coleoptera described by Say ; and 

 another, the original of published descriptions of Neuroptera de- 

 scribed by Say — partly in the handwriting of Say and partly as 

 copied by Harris ; a scrap-book of his own contains a manuscript 

 copy of his first list of the Insects of Massachusetts and memoranda 

 of exchanges, all in the clearest hand-writing, together with extracts, 

 newspaper clippings and other memoranda ; in addition to these there 

 is a volume with complete lists of the insects in his American cabinet, 

 referring to numbers upon the insects, and several blank books par- 

 tially filled with revised but incomplete lists of the American Insects 

 in his collection. 



The Secretary announced that the Council, at its last meet- 

 ting, had passed the following vote : — 



Voted :-~ That the net proceeds of the celebration of the 

 centennial anniversary of the birth of Humboldt, together 

 with the money received from the sale of Professor Agassiz's 

 Address, previous to Jan. 1, 1870, and the money subscribed 

 at the solicitation of the Society's committee, be given to the 

 Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 

 College, in trust, for the establishment of an endowment, 



