flying beetle. Both were men of highest scholastic attainments, both were devout and devoted pastors of Lutheran parishes. The Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, was a botanist; the Rev. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, an entomologist. There were times in those early days when Muhlenberg walked

traffic noises, the assembly repaired to the high school auditorium, where the full program was followed. In presenting the tablet to the borough of New Holland, Dr. Beck, for the Lancaster County Historical Society, declared, "We have been the first to commemorate, honor, revive and perpetuate the memory