PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 A. G. HAMMAR. 



The accidental death of Mr. Alfred G. Hammar, while hunting 

 in the Capitan Mountains near Roswell, New Mexico, is learned 

 with deep regret by the members of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington. Mr. Hammar was a regular attendant of the meet- 

 ings of the Society during his winter sojourns in Washington, and 

 took a deep interest in its work, and by his contributions of papers 

 and participations in discussions, added much of interest to its 

 meetings. 



Mr. Hammar accomplished much valuable work in the field of 

 economic entomology, notably his thorough-going biologic studies 

 of the codling moth ia Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Mexico, 

 and of the grape root worm in Pennsylvania. 



His genial nature and uniform courtesy to his associates have won 

 him a place high in the esteem of all who had come to know him. 



The Entomological Society of Washington wishes to here record 

 its feeling of the loss to the Society, as well as to American Eco- 

 nomic Entomology, and to express to his wife and brother its 

 sincere sympathy. 



The following papers were presented. 



Coleoptera at the British Museum, Bloomsbury. T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A new Tachinid Parasite of Diabrotica vittata. W. R. Walton. 



Notes on the Entomology of the Arizona Wild Cotton. W. D. Pierce and 



A. W. Morrill. 

 Experiments with the Arizona Wild Cotton Weevil on Texas Cotton. B. 



R. Coad and W. D. Pierce. 



Description of a New Blister Mite on Arizona Wild Cotton. Nathan Banks. 

 Two Microlepidoptera on Thurberia. August Busck. 

 The Chestnut Bast-miner. August Busck. 1 



COLEOPTERA AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, BLOOMSBURY. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



In the old days, which I am just old enough to remember, the 

 natural history departments of the British Museum were in the 

 original building; in Bloomsbury, London. The entomologists 

 had to work in underground rooms, which were so dark that criti- 

 cal work must often have been difficult, and we cannot wonder 

 that some of the descriptions prepared there are hard to under- 

 stand. Even at South Kensington, the light is not always as good 



1 Published in Ins. Ins. Mens., n, pp. 3-4, 1914. 



