PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Sfcan J^enri Jfafcre 



Jean Henri Fabre, Honorary Member of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Washington, died at Orange, France, 

 October 11, 1915 at the age of ninety-two years. He 

 had held many positions of honor but will best be re- 

 membered by Entomologists as the ideal of that active 

 * devotion to nature now too rarely seen. 



His entomological career began in 1855 and from then 

 until his death he published many excellent articles on 

 the habits of insects, principally in his Souvenirs ento- 

 mologiques. The originality and fidelity to nature of his 

 observations, as well as the delightful manner in which 

 he presented them, attracted the attention of Entomol- 

 ogists long before their translation and popularization 

 brought him fame and laid the foundation for the 

 awakening of wide spread interest in the habits of in- 

 sects. It is extremely fortunate for the entomological 

 world that this keen and patient observer was given so 

 many years to preserve in so charming a manner his 

 records of insect habits. 



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