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namely, his Monograph of the North America Proctotrypidse, 

 published as Bulletin 45 of the United States National 

 Museum, a work covering some 500 pages, or his Classification 

 of the Chalcid Flies or the Superfamily Chalcidoidea, published 

 by the Carnegie Museum, Serial No. 21, a quarto volume of 

 335 P a g es > would have been enough to have monopolized the 

 working part of the lifetime of any one ordinary man. But 

 aside from these he left some manuscript for a great mono- 

 graph of the Braconidse. 



Doctor Ashmead was given the degree of Master of Science 

 by the Florida State Agricultural College, and in 1904 was 

 made a Doctor of Philosophy by the Western University of 

 Pennsylvania, the Monograph of the Chalcidoidea just men- 

 tioned having been submitted as his thesis. He was prominent 

 in scientific circles. He was an honorary member of the Ento- 

 mological Society of America, a fellow of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, and a corresponding 

 member of the American Entomological Society, of Philadel- 

 phia. He had been president of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington (1894-5), vice-president of the Biological Society 

 of Washington, president of the Cambridge Entomological 

 Society (1894), vice-president of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences (1888, 1893, 1894), honorary member of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario, and vice-president of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists (1892). He was a member 

 of the Cosmos Club, of Washington, and of its very important 

 committee on admissions. He married, in Philadelphia, in 

 1878, Harriet, the daughter of Thomas O. Holmes. He leaves 

 a widow and one married daughter. 



When he came to Washington, he was a man of large prop- 

 erty, which, however, was greatly reduced by the disastrous 

 Jacksonville fire. This, however, did not appear to prey upon 

 his mind, and he remained, until the end, the same cheerful, 

 tireless worker in the field of pure science. 



Doctor Ashmead's entomological career may be considered 

 under six headings: His early, mostly economic, work; his 

 interest in Hemiptera and Coleoptera; the articles on the 

 Cynipidse ; the descriptive papers on various groups of Hymen- 



