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ing over, and on his arrival at his hotel his weakness was of so 

 serious a nature that his aunt put him in charge of a physician 

 and a nurse, but a few days later the alarming nature of his 

 case made his removal to a hospital necessary. He was there- 

 fore taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was attacked by 

 pleuro-pneumonia, and in his enfeebled condition his heart 

 failed rapidly. All efforts to strengthen it were unavailing. 

 and he passed away far from his native land. 



Owing to my slight acquaintance with Mr. Terry, I am un- 

 able to furnish any biographical data. J. R. DE LA TORRE 

 BUENO. 



GEORGE HENRY VERRALL, eminent British Dipterist, died 

 September 16, 1911. He was born February 7, 1848, was a 

 member of the "well known firm of race-course managers and 

 bankers, Messrs. Pratt & Co., and was concerned as auctioneer 

 with the sale of many famous race horses," and member of 

 Parliament for East Cambridgeshire in 1910. He served as 

 President of the Entomological Society of London in 1899. He 

 had planned a series of volumes on the British Flies, but lived 

 to complete only two of them, Vol. VIII. Syrphidae, etc. 

 (1901), and Vol V. Stratiomyidae, etc. (1909). Notices of 

 his life are given in the English entomological journals, por- 

 traits accompanying those in the Entomologist and The En- 

 tomologist's Monthly Magazine for November. 



ALBERT HARRISON, whose death on August 28, 1911, is also 

 announced by our English contemporaries, was known for his 

 breeding experiments on Lepidoptera. He was born in 1860. 



JULES BOURGEOIS, the chief authority on Cantharidae. died 

 in Markirch, Alsace, on July 18, 1911, aged 65 years. On Feb- 

 ruary 22nd last he had been elected an honorary member of 

 the Entomological Society of France. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for December, 1911, was mailed November 

 29, 1911, 



