Show one insect good bag gome thirty years ago A S pack ard now a professor in brown versley and widely known through his scientific work and writings caught a grasshopper somewhere down in maine says the manchester union it was not much of an insect as grass hoppers are commonly sized up by the lay mind there are plenty of grasshoppers in any field or pasture that are nearly or quite two inches in length with expansive bright color ed wings and not a few of them make a noise in the acrid every time they rise and take flight before the eager collector or the peacefully grazing cow t aut chiq grasshopper which prof packard found has no showy only the mere stubs of at the most makes no noise at any time and Is scarcely more tian half an inch long et for certain scientific rea sons it was regarded with a deeper interest than all the other members of the grasshopper arbe it was given a big name dawson ll ten derly pinned and carefully put away in the collection at cambridge no other individual of this rare in sect tribe was captured at any rate by anybody who recognized it until a year or two ago when misa susie an enthusiastic member of the entomological section of the manches ter institute secured the second sped men of dawsonia daws onil known to the scientific world s from that time prof A P of wellesley curator of the there and a grasshopper specialist of no mean reputation has greatly desired to secure specimens ot dawsonia daws onil on his own account accordingly taking advantage ot an invitation from mrs I 1 ogg I 1 rot morse came to manchester a day or two ago duly equipped with not cyanide bot tie and collecting box as the law 0 entomologists requires in company ft ath a parly composed of members of the institute he proceeded to hecl rimmon and with his net vigorously swept tho grass and shrubbery round abo it to his surprise and that ot all present he or miss fogg male another find it was a singo execl ren r en to be sure but as anly two had ever been found before it waa rightly considered reffard enough for ono days effort |