Vol. XXI] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 24! 



Then began the happiest and most productive period of his life, 

 and there also he met with the accident that eventually was to 

 deprive the world of the most promising of the younger gener- 

 ation of scientific hemipterologists. Shortly after his arrival in 

 Honolulu, while out riding, he forgot the American rule of the 

 road, and turned his horse, after the English fashion, to the 

 left as he came to a turn in the road, and crashed into a car- 

 riage coming in the opposite direction. His horse fell on him 

 and crushed his leg. This was badly set, and after the bones 

 had knit, it had to be broken again and reset. This operation 

 was repeated at intervals no less than four times, the last with 

 fatal results. There, too, he met the lady who became his wife; 

 there his little ones were born, and his little son, George, the 

 first and best beloved, died in infancy. 



Freed from the sordid details of clerical work, in his new 

 position, he was in his element. He did not, indeed, care great- 

 ly to work on other groups of insects, and at times the daily 

 routine of the economic entomologist was irksome, but never- 

 theless, whatever he did was done well, and he found time to 

 dedicate to his researches in the Hemiptera, although nearly all 

 the work he did was done at home in the evenings, after the 

 day's task was done. Yet, in spite of the limited time at his 

 command, he was able to produce enormous quantities of work 

 of the highest character. At some time in the near future, I 

 hope to be able to give at greater length an account of his work. 

 For the present, I shall merely mention his great work on the 

 Jassidae in connection with the Sugar Planters' Association 

 work on the parasites of the sugar cane, and the general Cata- 

 logue of the Hemiptera, now in course of publication, both of 

 which mark epochs in Hemipterology. Like every earnest 

 worker in the Hemiptera, the nomenclatorial chaos into which 

 the order had fallen soon forced itself upon his notice, and 

 much as he disliked to neglect the biological phases of the 

 group, he was impelled to endeavor to place this important 

 branch of the subject on a stable basis. In the pursuit of this 

 laudable object, he was compelled by the sheer logic of the 

 circumstances, to take radical and iconoclastic measures, but 



