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wood was kept in a dry kiln for ten days and subjected to a tempera- 

 ture of 120 to 150 degrees. He suggested that all waste should be 

 destroyed and the lumber to be used left in a kiln for a longer period 

 and subjected to as high a temperature as possible. Mr. Wenzel ex- 

 hibited his collection of Staphylinus and allied genera. 



Lepidoptera. Air. Hornig said that he had had fifty men allowed 

 him to rid the public squares and parks of the egg masses of the 

 tussock moth, which were very numerous this winter. Mentioned one 

 branch about three inches in diameter and about four feet long on 

 which he counted over two hundred egg masses. During January and 

 February he had collected eighty-two buckets of these masses and he 

 had figured on from three to five thousand masses to the bucket and 

 about three hundred eggs to the mass. 



Diptera. Mr. Harbeck exhibited a pair of Condidca lata Coq. from 

 White Fish Point, Michigan. Also spoke of a confusion in collections 

 of Laphria gik'a Linn, with allied species. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEORGE M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



CARL BRUNNF.R VON WATTENWYL. 



Although this famous Orthopterist passed away on the 

 twenty-fourth of August, 1914, at Kirchdorf on the Krems in 

 Upper Austria, news of his death reached America but a few 

 months ago, and this but a brief notice of the close of his long 

 and active life of over ninety-one years. Brunner stands with 

 Saussure as one of the two greatest Orthopterists of his day, 

 as to these two men we owe practically all the groundwork 

 and a vast proportion of the detailed study of the present 

 classification of the order. 



Brunner was born at Bern, Switzerland, June 13, 1823, a 

 member of one of the oldest Swiss families, but early in life 

 changed his home to Vienna, where the remainder of his life 

 was largely spent. It seems a remarkable coincidence that the 

 two master minds of systematic Orthopterology should both 

 be of Swiss birth and of old Swiss families. A member of the 

 Aulic Council and the organizer of the telegraph service of 

 Austria, as well as a bearer of the title of "Hofrath," Brun- 

 ner was a man of distinction aside from the scientific world. 



