Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 



OBITUARY. 



JAMES H. B. BLAND. 



(Portrait, Plate V.) 



James H. B. Bland died in Philadelphia, November 12, 1911, 

 in his seventy-ninth year. He was born in North Carolina but, 

 removing to Philadelphia, became one of the 'organization 

 members of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, on 

 February 22, 1859. He took an active interest in the Society, 

 serving as Vice-President for two years, 1861-1862, as Presi- 

 dent for three years, 1863-1865, and was seldom absent from 

 the meetings during the first decade of the Society's existence. 

 His entomological activities were largely aided by Dr. Thomas 

 B. Wilson, that great friend and patron of science in the fifties 

 and early sixties, whose relations to this Society have been 

 recently told in Mr. E. T. Cresson's History of the American 

 Entomological Society. 



Bland published seven papers on Coleoptera, all in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Vols. 

 i-iv. 



A reference to Eland's collecting during these years was 

 recently made in this journal (ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Octo- 

 ber, 1911, p. 354) by Dr. Skinner. 



For the last forty years Eland's entomological interests were 

 more spasmodic, although he was an organization member of 

 the Feldman Collecting Social, in December, 1887, and first 

 President. Part of an anniversary address which he delivered 

 to the Social, December 26, 1889, and his portrait were pub- 

 lished in a booklet, issued in 1907, in commemoration of the 

 twentieth anniversary of the Social, and to the Social we are 

 indebted for the privilege of reproducing .the portrait here. 



F. W. TERRY. Again it is my sad task to advise you of the 

 untimely cutting off of another Entomologist. Mr. F. W. 

 Terry, of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, 

 of Honolulu, died in New York, on November 8, 1911. and 

 his body was sent to England by an aunt, Mrs. M. L. Eclmond- 

 son. He arrived in New York, on October I9th, on his way 

 from his English home to Honolulu, after a vacation taken 

 for the restoration of his health, undermined by a long res- 

 idence in the tropics. He was quite ill on the steamer com- 



