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MAY J 3' lS 97- 



President Marlatt in the chair and Messrs. Schwarz, Coquillett, 

 E. F. Smith, Busck, Fernow, Banks, Patten, Motter, Pratt, Gill, 

 Ashmeacl, Howard, and Dr. Clifton Mayfield also present. 



The President announced the death, on May 3d last, of Martin 

 L. Linell, an active member of the Society, and made a few 

 remarks appreciative of the value of Mr. Linell's entomological 

 works, of his good qualities as a man and of the loss to the 

 Society from his death. Upon motion of Mr. Howard, it was 

 resolved that the Society publish a short sketch of Mr. Linell's 

 life and work with a bibliography of his published entomological 

 writings, and also a brief manuscript found upon his desk which 

 will be entitled k4 Descriptions of New Heteromerous Coleoptera 

 from North America." 



MARTIN LARSSON LINELL. 



Little is known of the early life of Linell, and the following 

 data are taken from a short obituary note published by Mr. F. H. 

 Chittenden in Entomological News (vol. 8, No. 6, p. 159): 

 Martin Larsson Linell was born at Gronby, Sweden, June 24, 

 1849. At an eai "ly a g e ne became interested in the study of 

 nature and made collections of Swedish insects and plants. In the 

 year 1870 he entered the university at Lund, where he distin 

 guished himself by his proficiency in mathematics, biology, and 

 languages. It was his father's intention to fit his son for the 

 ministry, but young Linell abandoned the university career at the 

 end of his third year and entered the railway mail service. In 

 1879 he married and came to America, where he obtained em 

 ployment in a chemical laboratory at Brooklyn, N. Y. In his 

 spare time he resumed his entomological studies and formed a 

 collection of Coleoptera. He soon established for himself the 

 reputation of being the best systematist among the New York 

 entomologists. In iSSS he was called to Washington as an aid 

 in the Department of Insects at the U. S. National Museum. 



