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catalogue of Long Island insects of all orders. A surprisingly 

 large number of semi-tropical forms have been discovered. 



R. P. Dow, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Professor Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr. 



(Portrait, Plate XIII) 



Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of 

 Zoology in the University of Pennsylvania, died on March 

 igth, at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, after a pro- 

 longed attack of pneumonia. 



Dr. Montgomery was the son of the late Thomas Harrison 

 Montgomery and Anna Morton, daughter of Samuel George 

 Morton, one of the founders of the sciences of craniology, 

 and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. He was born in New York on March 5, 1873, an d re- 

 ceived his early education at the Episcopal Academy in Phila- 

 delphia. After two years as a student in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, 1889 to 1891, he spent three years in the study 

 of Zoology at the University of Berlin and received the degree 

 of Ph. D. at that institution in 1804. 



On his return to this country he held a research position at 

 the Wistar Institute for a few years. He was also Professor 

 of Biology and Director of the Museum of the Wagner Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia. In 1898 he was made Instructor and 

 afterward Assistant Professor of Zoology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania. From 1903 to 1908 he was Professor of 

 Zoology in the University of Texas, but in the latter year he 

 was recalled to take charge of the Department of Zoology in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward he was 

 intrusted by the University with the chief responsibility for 

 the planning and construction of the new Zoological Labora- 

 tory. Into this labor he threw himself with his usual untiring 

 energy, giving personal attention to every detail. The building 

 was completed in 1911, and will stand as a monument to his 

 foresight and his executive ability. 



