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Society. His earliest entomological work was with the British 

 Lepidoptera, elucidating many life histories and furnishing 

 many data for genetics. (The Entom., June, 1922.) 



HENRY ROWLAND-BROWN, "one of the best known and most 

 popular of British entomologists," died May 3, 1922, at Harrow 

 Weald. He was born at Woodridings, Pinner, May 19, 1865, 

 educated at Rugby and Oxford, was athlete, journalist and 

 poet, active and efficient secretary of the Entomological Society 

 of London, and made the diurnal Lepidoptera of France his 

 special study. A number of his papers are included in M. 

 Charles Oberthiir's publications. Americans in attendance at 

 the Second International Congress of Entomology, al Oxford, 

 in 1912, will not fail to remember him and to regret his decease 

 at a comparatively early age. He bequeathed his books to the 

 London society and the Hope Museum, Oxford, his collection 

 to the latter. An obituary notice is in The Entomologist for 

 June, 1922. 



The same number reports the death of the well-known col- 

 lector and author of "a very large proportion of the Rhopalo- 

 cera section of Seitz's Exotic Macrolepidoptera," HANS FRUH- 

 STORFER, at Munich, April 9, 1^22, in his fifty-ninth year. 



DR. OTTO TASCHENBERG. Professor of Zoology at the Uni- 

 versity of Halle, author of the unfinished Bibliotheca Zoologica 

 II, died March 20. 1922. in his sixty-eighth year. (Wiener 

 Ent. Zeit., xxxix, p. 112.) 



The death of Louis BEDEL, Coleopterist, was announced, 

 without date, at the meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 France, held February 8. 1922. His principal works were a 

 Monographic dcs Erotylicns (1870), Catalogue Raisonnc dc? 

 Colcnptcrcs dn Nord dc I'Afriquc and Faunc dcs CoUoptcre;; 

 (In Has-sin ilc la Seine, the latter two unfinished. He bequeathed 

 the first set of his collection to the Entomological Laboratory of 

 the National Museum of Natural History (Paris), the dupli- 

 cates, his working instruments and such of his books not 

 already in the Society's library to the Entomological Society of 

 France. (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1922, nos. 3, 4.) 



