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Editorial Chat. 
We are sorry to appear so late before our 
readers, but on account of pressing business, 
it was impossible for us to issue the Valley 
Naturalist any sooner. 
Unless otherwise informed, subscriptions 
received after this day will begin with the 
July issue. Back numbers can always be had 
at the regular price. 
Read our list of Missouri Entomological 
Reports, and other equally valuable books 
for sale, on another page. Price is the very 
lowest, compare with other lists. 
John Akhurst, Esq., dealer in the finest 
quality of Carlsbader and Klaeger entomolo- 
gical pins, etc. has removed to No. 32 Nassau 
street, Brooklyn, N. Y. See his advertise- 
ment on another page. 
Persons receiving copies of the Natur- 
alist who are not subscribers, will please 
regard it as an invitation to subscribe. From 
all interested in natural science we earnestly 
solicit a subscription. 
At the Missouri Botanical Gardens there 
is at present blooming a specimen of Bona- 
partea Juncea. The plant is about 25 years 
old, and is, we beleive the first one which 
has ever bloomed in the United States. 
Mr. Cuthbert Powell, formerly editor and 
proprietor of the St. Louis Live Stock and 
Produce Bevieiv, now connected with the 
Kansas City Price Current, paid us a visit 
on the 19th of October. We were all glad to 
see little " Bert's " smiling face again. He 
left on the evening train for Kansas City. 
L. Heiligbrodt, our entomological contri- 
butor of Bastrop, Texas, who has been sup- 
plying the Valley Naturalist with lists 
of the lepidoptera and hymenoptera of Bas- 
trop County, Texas, promises to have a list 
of the coleoptera of that locality ready for 
publication in the December number of the 
Valley Naturalist. We know it will find 
many interesting readers. 
In a collection of gems and ornamental 
stones recently received from Prof. Foote, is 
a natural curiosity in the shape of an insect 
embedded in a piece of amber. It is well 
preserved, and as far as visible, complete, 
the antennas, legs, sting and wing-covers be- 
ing plainly visible to tbe naked eye. Being 
as we termed it — a natural curiosity, we 
thought it worthy of note. 
We recently received two photographs of 
the Great Siberian Mammoth {Elephas prim- 
igenius) from Professor Henry A. Ward's 
Natural Science Establishment, which is on 
exhibition in Cbicago, until October 19th. 
By referring to page 44, September issue 
the reader will find a discription of this 
mammoth. One is a side view, the other a 
front view. They can be seen at our office. 
The Valley Naturalist is the only pa- 
per containing- articles of every branch 
of Natural Science. 
Thomas E. Bean, Esq., of Galena, Illinois, 
an enthusiastic lepidopterist, called at our 
office on the 19th inst. He had visited all the 
places of interest in the city of St. Louis, 
among them we may mention the Great St. 
Louis Exposition and Fair; Shaw's Missouri 
Botanical Gardens; Tower Grove Park; La- 
fayette Park; the Public School and Mercan- 
tile Libraries which furnish many fine works 
for the working naturalist. He noticed at 
the Exposition a splendid collection of insects 
which, it is rumerecl, is the property of Miss 
M. Murtfelt, of Kirkwood, Mo. Mr. Bean 
promises to contribute occasionally, and we 
are sure his articles will interest all our en- 
tomological readers. 
Agents, this is a splendid chance to 
add another good paying- publication 
to your list. A liberal per centag-e al- 
lowed. 
The Imported Cabbage Butterfly, (Pieris 
rapce, Schrank.) has reached St. Louis. This 
insect was imported in 1857 or 1858, it was 
observed and taken by a Canadian entomolo- 
gist in 1859 at Quebec. From that place as a 
centre it has rapidly spread to the West, and 
more rapidly to the South, reaching Wash- 
ington some years since. During the years 
1876 and 1877 it entered the state of Michigan 
and was observed by Prof. A. J. Cook, Pro- 
fessor of natural history in the State Agricul- 
tural College at Lansing, Michigan, where 
it commenced a thorough work of extermin- 
ation ; and September, 1878, brings it to Mis- 
souri, as numerous specimens have been ob- 
served and captured by entomologists in this 
city. We shall be thankful for information 
as to its progress in other parts of Missouri 
as well as from other states, let us hear from 
our Illinois friends. Our next issue will 
bring an interesting description of this but- 
terfly, and its habits. 
