2IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July. ' 1 9 



The Entomologist (London) for May, 1919, contains an 

 obituary&friotice of SYDNEY WEBB (1837-1919), a writer of 

 monographs on British Tineina and other Microlepidoptera. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of France held 

 February 12, 1919, it was announced that "the Grand Duke 

 NICOLAS MICH AILOV ITCH, honorary member of the society, 

 and two of his brothers had been recently massacred at Petro- 

 grad. The news appears unhappily certain today.' 1 The Grand 

 Duke is known entomologically for the nine volumes of "Me- 

 moires sur les Lepidopteres rediges par N. M. Romanoff," St. 

 Petersbourg, 1884-1897, consisting of essays by himself and 

 others on chiefly Palaearctic species and illustrated with col- 

 ored plates. 



Dr. RAPHAEL BLANCHARD, parasitologist and historian of 

 medicine, who died in Paris, February 3, 1919, aged 62, pub- 

 lished on pathogenic Diptera and also a separate work, Les 

 Moiistiqucs (Paris, 1905). An obituary notice recently ap- 

 peared in Science (April 25, 1919). 



JULES KUNKEL D'HERCULAIS, honorary assistant at the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History, Paris, died December 22, 

 1918, at Conflans-fin-d'Oise, France, aged 75 years. His work- 

 on Volu-cclla (1875) was awarded one of the great prizes of 

 the Academy of Sciences. In the course of his studies in Al- 

 geria and the Argentine Republic, he published important 

 memoirs on migratory Acrididae and on the early stages of 

 their parasites. Mylabrus and Cleridae. (Bull. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 1918, No. 20.) 



Dr. W. J. Holland has given an interesting account of the 

 life and activities of the well known collector, HERBERT 

 HUNTINGTON SMITH, in Science for May 23. 1019. We hope 

 to have an article from the same pen, specially devoted to Mr. 

 Smith's entomological work, in the next number of the NEWS. 

 Mr. Smith was born at Manlius, New York. January 21, 1851, 

 and killed by accident March 22, 1919, in Alabama. 



R. KOBERT, professor of pharmacology at Rostock, whose 

 death on December 27, 1918, aged 64, is announced in Science 

 for June 6, was known entomologically for his Bcitraac cur 

 Kenntniss dcr Giftstinncn door), containing his results on 

 the poison of the Malmignatte (Latrodectcs tredecimguttatus) . 



