ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. viii. 



APRIL, 1897. 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Dr. John Hamilton 73 



Kellogg John L. Curtis 75 



Patton Acorn insects 76 



Jones Some Delaware Noctuidse 77 



Editorial 79 



Notes and News 82 



Entomological Literature 83 



Doings of Societies 90 



Entomological Section 91 



Curtis Theridium inconstans 91 



Cockerel! The third Amer. Kermes... 94 

 Bergroth On two remarkable Hemip- 



tera 95 



DR. JOHN HAMILTON. 



Dr. John Hamilton, the well-known physician and entomologist, 

 of Allegheny, Pa., died Friday, February i2th, at Pitts' Island, 

 Lake Worth, Fla. He had been in feeble health and went to 

 Florida early in January, where for a time his condition was im- 

 proved. He died after a short illness. Dr. Hamilton was born 

 in St. Clair, Columbiana County, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1827. He 

 graduated from Duquesne College in 1846 and at Jefferson Col- 

 lege, Canonsburgh, Pa., in 1847. He studied theology under 

 the late Prof. James R. Willson, D.D., completing a four years' 

 course in 1851. Later he studied medicine in the office of the 

 late Dr. Dickson, of this city, and in 1856 graduated from the 

 University Medical College, of New York. He first practiced 

 his profession in Greenfield, Mercer County, Pa., where he spent 

 six years, alter which he removed to Allegheny, where he prac- 

 ticed his profession until his health failed four years ago. Dr. 

 Hamilton was a cultivated physician and always a diligent stu- 

 dent. His early education in theology was continued in Bible 

 study and his religious life was nourished thereby. For many 

 years he was a member of the Allegheny Reformed Presbyterian 

 Church, of which he was a liberal supporter and to the \\clt.uc 



