OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XVIII, UMii 



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The death of Mr. Harry M. Russell at Tempe, Arizona is here 

 recorded with sincere regret by the members of the Entomological 

 Society of Washington. Mr. Russell has been an active member 

 of the Society for the past eight years and regularly attended the 

 meetings during his winter sojourns in Washington. Mr. Russell 

 carried on much of the initial work of the truck crop insect in- 

 vestigations of the National Bureau in Florida and has added 

 materially to the literature of our subtropical economic ento- 

 mology. 



His kindly nature and courtesy made him an esteemed friend 

 of many of our American entomologists. This society wishes to 

 record its appreciation of the loss incurred by the Society as 

 well as by American Economic Entomology in his untimely death 

 and to express to his family its sincere sympathy. 



THE LIFE AND WORKS OF H. M. RUSSELL. 



BY A. L. QUAINTANCE, J. A. HYSLOP, AND W. R. WALTON. 



Harry Merwin Russell was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 

 on March 30, 1882. He received his preparatory schooling in 

 the Bridgeport public schools, graduating from the High School 

 in 1901. He entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 in 1902 and received the Bachelor of Science degree in 1906. 

 While a student he was employed during the summer months as 

 ;i Deputy Nursery Inspector of the 'State of Massachusetts 

 The summer following his graduation, he was temporarily en- 

 gaged in the Gipsey and Brown Tail Moth parasite work at the 

 Su,ugus Laboratory, and that winter returned to his Alma Mater 

 as a lecturer on Botany in the winter short courses. On May 1 . 

 1907. he was appointed as Special Field Agent in the Federal 

 Bureau of Entomology under Dr. F. H. Chittenden and was 

 n-appointed as Agent and Expert on July 1, 1908. On September 

 1, 1911 his title was changed to Entomological Assistant. The 

 first three years of his work with the Federal Bureau were spent 

 in investigations of the Truck Crop Insects in Florida. Here 

 he met Mrs. Lillie S. Brysnn, a daughter of the late Honorable 

 David C. Slaimhler of Memphis, Tennessee, t< whom lie was 

 married on March 12, 1909 at Miami. Florida. Me then \veni 



