Vol. XXvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



cal Society represents the union and co-operation of men who are in- 

 terested in animal and plant material, in marine and terrestrial organ- 

 isms, in the broader floristic and faunistic problems, and in the precise 

 experimental study of organisms or the exact measurement of environ- 

 mental conditions. Such an organization will be able to do much 

 toward emphasizing fundamental problems of general ecology, and 

 toward placing this science in a position correlative with that of gen- 

 eral physiology. 



The constitution admits of great freedom with regard to the holding 

 of field meetings, and it would be difficult to overestimate the value 

 that they may be made to possess. There will be an added stimulus to 

 travel, there will be profit for every ecologist in seeing new regions 

 under the guidance of men who know them well, and there will be 

 profit for the science of ecology if the students of plants and animals 

 can unite frequently for a consideration of the biota as an indivisible 

 unit. 



There will be a field meeting at Chicago in June, under the leader- 

 ship of Dr. H. C. Cowles ; one on the Pacific Coast in August, probably 

 at San Diego. The Secretary will give early announcement of the de- 

 tails of these and of any others that may be initiated by different 

 groups of members. The first regular annual meeting will be held in 

 New York during the next Convocation week. 



The Secretary is gathering information from the members as to their 

 past ecological work and that in progress, their specialties, their willing- 

 ness to undertake identification of material, their knowledge of various 

 geographical areas and kindred topics, all to be published as a Hand- 

 book of the Society. 



The membership of all interested in ecological work is desired. 



[From circulars issued by the Secretary, Dr. FORREST SHREVE, Tuc- 

 son, Arizona; temporary address, 2753 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, Md.] 



OBITUARY. 



Miss ADELE MARION FIEI.DE died in Seattle, Washington, 

 February 24, 1916. Born in East Rodman, New York, March 

 30, 1839, ar >d graduated from a New York State Normal School 

 in i8fa>, she taught in her native State for some years and 

 then went out as a Baptist missionary, first to Siam in 1866, 

 and later to China, especially in Swatow. Having become 

 deeply interested in the theory of evolution she returned to 

 America in 1883 and, at the suggestion of Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan, pursued studies in biology in Philadelphia, especially 



