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OBITUARY. 



The March, 1918, issue of The Oologist, of Lacon, Illinois, 

 contains an obituary notice and portrait of OTTOMAR REI- 

 NECKE, who, in cooperation with Frank H. Zesch, published a 

 "List of the Coleoptera Observed and Collected in the Vicinity 

 of Buffalo" (Bulletin, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., iv, pp. 2-15, July. 

 1881). This list gives the names of species only, collected 

 ''within a radius not exceeding fifteen miles [during] . . . 

 a period of nearly fourteen years." An ''Additional List of 

 Coleoptera collected by Ottomar Reinecke," likewise of 

 names only, appeared in January, 1882, on page 55 of the 

 same volume. According to The Oologist, Reinecke was born 

 at Sondershaven, Germany, November 26, 1840, settled in 

 Buffalo at the age of twelve years, and died there, November 

 26, 1917. He was a printer, editor and a proprietor of the 

 Freie Presse, park commissioner and business man, and a stu- 

 dent of birds as well as of beetles. 



The death of DR. EMILE FREY-GESSNER, of Geneva, Swit- 

 zerland, an honorary fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London since 1912, was announced at the meeting of that 

 Society held October 3, 1917, but without further particu- 

 lars. 



The English journals print obituaries of WILLIAM HENRY 

 HARWOOD, English Lepidopterist and Hymenopterist, born 

 February 25, 1840; died December 24, 1917, (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Feby., 1918), and of RICHARD S. STANDEN, English Lepidop- 

 terist and artist, born October n, 1835; died July 2i>, 1017 

 (Entomologist, Nov., 1917; Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec., 1917.) 



