ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XIII. 



JANUARY, 1902. 



No. i. 



CONTENTS: 



Obituary F. H. H. Strecker 



Slosson Additional List of Insects 



taken at Mt. Washington 



Fox Letters from Thomas Say to John 



F. Melsheimer, 1816-1825. X 



Fox Note on the Insect Collection of 



Thomas Sav 



Montgomery List of the Hemiptera 

 Heteroptera of the Vicinity of 



Wood's Hull, Massachusetts 



Rehn New Aptenopedes from Florida 

 Skinner New Species of Rhopalocera 



Editorial 16 



Entomological Literature 18 



Doings ofSocieties 24 



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Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker. 



Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker died at 7.55 A.M., 

 November 3oth, at his home, 1325 Mineral Spring Road, 

 Reading, Pa. 



He was standing at 6th and Penn about 6 P.M., Friday, 

 the previous evening, waiting for a car, when he was stricken 

 with apoplexy and fell. Friends went to his assistance and 

 placed him in a cab, in which he was removed to his home. 

 He never regained consciousness. 



Deceased was 65 years of age. He is survived by his widow 

 and two children, Mrs. Edwin I,. Hettiuger and Paul Strecker. 



He had not been in the best of health for some weeks. 



Dr. Strecker was of German parentage, and was born in 

 Philadelphia, March 24, 1836. He inherited his fondness for 

 scientific studies, and evinced this inclination at an early ?ige. 

 On his mother's side were three naturalists of note-. They 

 w r ere Benjamin, Edward and Richard Kern. 



Dr. Strecker was an architect, designer and sculptor by pro- 

 fession. He located in Reading when a boy, having accom- 

 panied his father, who was a prominent dealer in marble and 

 marble worker of Reading at that time. Since then he f>l- 



