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Meeting of April gth, 1911, at Newark Turn Hall. Presi- 

 dent Buchholz in the chair ; twelve members present. 



On the motion of Mr. Keller to hold a field meeting on May 

 30th, the President appointed Messrs. Keller, Brehme and Er- 

 hard as a committee to select a suitable place for the meeting. 

 The Field Committee selected Springfield, New Jersey, for 

 this meeting. 



Mr. Keller reported that he had seen the Starlings (Sturnus 

 vulgaris) picking the soft Arctia cocoons from sides of houses. 



A general discussion on Forestry and Collecting in the 

 United States and Germany by Messrs. Keller, Kircher and 

 Buchholz was very interesting. The general belief was that 

 more collecting is done by beating trees in Germany than in 

 the United States. HERMAN H. BREHME, Secretary. 



OBITUARY 



DR. HERMAN WILLEM VAN DER WEELE. 



From a memorial notice (in Dutch) contributed to the latest 

 issue (Volume 54, first Aflevering, April 8, 1911) of the Tijd- 

 sckrift voor Entomologie by Dr. Ed. Everts, we learn some 

 particulars of the life of this young Dutch neuropterist. Van 

 der Weele was born October 8, 1879. His education was ob- 

 tained at the Leyden High School, especially under Prof. A. 

 C. K. Hoffman, and later at the University of Berne, Switzer- 

 land, at which latter, under Prof. W. Studer's direction, he pro- 

 duced his dissertation Morphologic und Entwicklnng der Gon- 

 apophysen der Odonaten and obtained his doctor's degree. 

 He became second conservator of insects at the Leyden Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, and went thence to the Dutch East 

 Indies where he succumbed to cholera in Batavia, Java, August 

 29, 1910. His bibliography comprises twenty-seven titles of 

 papers in English, French and German, the most extensive 

 among them being two fascicules, on Ascalaphides, Sialides 

 and Rhaphidides, of the Catalogue Systematique et descriptif 



