l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 



OBITUARY. 



Professor DAVID SIMONS KELLICOTT was born at Hastings Centre, 

 Oswego County, N. Y., January 28, 1842, and died at his home in Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, April 13, 1898. In his boyhood his frail constitution and 

 delicate health required him to spend much of his time out of doors, and 

 it is to this, no doubt that in part at least, his love for nature may be 

 traced. He graduated from Syracuse University with the degree of B. 

 Sc., while the institution was yet known as Genesee College, teaching one 

 year in southern Ohio, prior to his graduation. After graduating he 

 taught one year in Kingston Normal School, Pennsylvania, after which 

 he was connected for seventeen years with the State University at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., being Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and also Professor of 

 Botany and Microscopy. He came to the Ohio State University in 1888, 

 where, for ten years, he has occupied the chair of Zoology and Entomol- 

 ogy. At the time of his death he was General Secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the American 

 Microscopical Society and Treasurer of the Ohio Academy of Science. 

 He had served as President of the Buffalo, N. Y., Academy of Science 

 and of the Ohio Academy of Science. 



Animal Parasites of Fishes and the Rotifera, from time to time, claimed 

 considerable of Professor Kellicott's attention, but his entomological 

 work won for him the admiration of the entomologists of America. 

 Patient, conscientious, and utterly devoid of selfishness, he was one of 

 the most kind and lovable men the writer has ever met. Faithful and 

 just with his colleagues and the idol of his pupils, seeking patiently and 

 industriously after the truth, he won esteem while living, and, in his 

 death, he has left numberless friends to mourn his loss. If there was ever 

 a man who deserved the reward " Well done thou good and faithful 

 servant," that man was David S. Kellicott; and the fruits of his labors on 

 earth will stand as an enduring monument to his faithfulness among his 

 fellow-men. F. M. WEBSTER. 



Especially will the American students of the Odonata feel the loss of 

 Prof. Kellicott. To him is due the recognition of the distinctness of 

 Enallagrna geminata Kell. from E. divagans Selys, the description of 

 E. fischeri Kell., and of greater value a very considerable number of 

 observations on the habits and conditions of life chiefly of the species 

 recorded in his "Catalogue of the Odonata of Ohio," published in the 

 Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History for 1895, 1896 and 

 1897. PHILIP P. CALVERT. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for May was mailed April 29, 1898. 



