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From 1883 to 1895 he published three papers that relate to 

 Diptera or other insects either wholly or in part. 



In Roi'artani Lapok, Vol. 22, 1915, pp. 141-147, is a portrait. 

 obituary and bibliography. The latter lists his publications 

 except the posthumous ones. The obituary notice of nearly 

 two pages is in Hungarian. 



H. L. VIERECK. 



CAROLINE BURLING THOMPSON. 



Miss Caroline Burling Thompson, professor of zoology at 

 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, died at that place 

 December 5, 1921. She was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, June 27, 1869, daughter of Lucius P. and Caro- 

 line Burling Thompson. She attended the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, receiving the degrees of B.S. in Biology in 1898 and 

 of Ph.D. in 1901. Under the influence of the late T. H. Mont- 

 gomery, Jr. (then Assistant Professor), she, as a graduate, 

 took up the study of the Nemertean worms and published at 

 least three papers on this group. One of them, her thesis for 

 the doctorate, on the anatomy of Zygeupolia Htoralis, appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia for 1901. 



Tn 1901 she was appointed Instructor in Zoology at Welles- 

 ley College and was subsequently promoted to be Associate 

 Professor (1909) and Professor (1916) in that subject. It 

 was while there that Dr. Thompson's entomological work began 

 with her comparative study of ants' brains, a subject "sug- 

 gested to me by Prof. W. M. Wheeler of Harvard University 

 as one that needed investigation." Her detailed description of 

 the structure of this organ afforded, she believed, additional 

 evidence that the mushroom bodies are the chief motor and 

 psychic centers and that the queen's brain seems to represent 

 the generalized type from which the worker caste has departed. 

 (1913.} Extending her studies to termites, to compare their 

 brains with those of ants, she found that "The termite brain 

 as a whole is very similar in structure to the brain of ants. 



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with the notable exception of the mushroom bodies which an- 

 of a much more simple and primitive type" and suggested that 

 the frontal gland, found in all castes of termites, "may have 



