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beetles in Pennsylvania, if not the United States. Four thousand of these he has mounted in the form of a flower pot, from which extends a spray of flowers, and bearing the figures "1906," denoting the year in which it was completed. The majority of the insects used in this are the common "dog bane" beetles, indigenous to Pennsylvania, while the border which surrounds it is composed of other beetles and flies, some of which he secured in journeys to the Southern states, among them being several poisonous dragon flies of the Florida swamps.

In 1885 Pennsylvania was visited by the three kinds of locusts, the familiar annual variety, the thirteen-year kind and the famous seventeen-year locust, an occurrence which scientists declare will not

happen again for 221 years or until tle year 2106. Because of the exceeding rarity of the phenomenon Emerich gathered a large number of each kind and mounted them in an attractive design in a large picture frame. The wings of the three varieties he utilized to form an artistic border.

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