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tera, Vol. I in part (1881-1905), which he contributed to the 

 Biologta Centrali-Ainericana. Among' his other works are 

 Rhopalocera Malayana (1882-1886), Monograph of the Ori- 

 aitol Cicadiclac (1889-1892), A Naturalist in the Transvaal 

 (1892), hisccta Transvaaliensia (1900-1911), Rhynchota, 7 

 Vols. (1902-1918), in the Fauna of British India, A Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Homoptcra, Part I Cicadidac (1906), as well 

 as numerous shorter articles in the English journals from 18/4 

 to 1920. He was editor of The Zoologist from 1897 to 1914, 

 and a member of the Entomological Societies of London, 

 France, Stockholm and Belgium and a corresponding member 

 of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Appreciative no- 

 tices of him appeared in the March numbers of The Entomol- 

 ogist and The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, from which 

 the above account is drawn. 



GEORGE ALEXANDER JAMES ROTHNEV, born in 1849, died 

 January 31, 1922, formed an extensive collection of Oriental 

 Hymenoptera, many of them collected by himself in India from 

 1872 on. This, together with a library on the same group, he 

 presented during his life time to the Hope Museum at Oxford, 

 England. ( Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 1922.) 



Another martyr to research on the nature and transmission 

 of typhus has fallen in the person of ARTHUR W. BACOT, who 

 died in Cairo, Egypt. April 12, 1922. At the invitation of the 

 Egyptian Government he had undertaken experiments with 

 lice in the laboratories of the Public Health Department and 

 it is supposed that he became infected by some accident. He 

 was previously well known for his work on the bionomics of 

 rat fleas (done at his home in Essex, England), of the Yellow 

 Fever Mosquito (which he studied in Sierra Leone in 1914-15). 

 and of lice in connection with trench fever (1915-17). In 1911 

 he was appointed Entomologist to the Lister Institute of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine, in 1916 Honorary Entomological Adviser to 

 the War Office, in 1917 to the British Trench Fever Committee 

 of the War Office, and in 1 ( )20 he went to Poland with the 

 Typhus Research Commission of the League of the Red Cross 



