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OBITUARY NOTES. 



[We have brought together, from various sources, published during 

 the last year, the following data on entomologists who have recently 

 passed away.] 



A brief note in Science for February 2, 1911 (page 112) 

 announced the death of JUAN J. RODRIGUEZ, of Guatemala 

 City, on December 22, 1916. Thanks to Mr. William Schaus, 

 we have received a typewritten copy of an obituary notice in 

 El Diario dc Centra- America (Guatemala), for December 22, 

 1916, from which we translate the following: 



Don Juan J. Rodriguez Luna, who was born in 1840 and 

 who consequently died at the advanced age of 76 years, had 

 shown already in his early youth his love for this class of 

 studies [zoology] and his competence in dealing with them. 

 As was the custom in that period, he began his education in 

 the College of the Seminary and has left us interesting notes 

 of the awakening of his scientific inclinations. In the Semi- 

 nary there existed no provision for the natural sciences, but 

 he already observed with attention the life of insects, their 

 metamorphoses and habits, and toward the end of his stay in 

 the college, Father Farias, to stimulate his inclinations, lent 

 him a very elementary book from the library. Another 

 Father, notwithstanding, counselled him not to devote much 

 time to this occupation because "he who looks much at the 

 earth does not look to heaven." This did not hinder the 

 young lover of nature from continuing his studies, which 

 must have been well advanced in 1864, when the Sociedad 

 Kconomica de Amigos de Guatemala, founding the National 

 Museum in that year, confided to him the zoological section. 



In 1867 he was admitted as an advocate, a profession which 

 he never practiced, and his father, don Jose Mariano Rod- 

 riguez, arranged that he should undertake a voyage to Eu- 

 rope. So the son made his first visit to the Old World in 

 1868. In Paris and especially in Belgium he cultivated the 

 friendship of men of science working in zoology and chiefly 

 in entomology and, with a great fund of new information, 

 returned to Guatemala in 1869. The museum of the Economic 



