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(There is also an obituary not'ce in The Entomologists' Mnnthl\ 

 Magazine for February, 1922. by Mr. G. C. Champion, accompanied 

 by a portrait.) 



The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for January, 1922, 

 announces that Entomologisehe Rlacttcr, XIII, 1917, contains 

 an obituary notice of DR. GEORG VON SEIDLTTZ, known for his 

 writings on Palaearctic Coleoptera. He was horn June 19, 

 1840, in Tschornaja Rjetschka, near Petrograd, and died July 

 15, 1917, at Irschenhausen, Oherhayern. 



The same magazine for July, 1921, contains appreciative 

 notices of DR. GEORGE BLUNDELL LONGSTAFF, author of 

 Butterfly Hunting' in Many Lands, who died May 7, 1921, in 

 his 73rd year, and who was a substantial benefactor of the 

 Hope Department of Zoology (Entomology) at the University 

 of Oxford. 



Other entomologists whose deaths have occurred within the 

 past twelve months but have not been noted previously in the 

 NEWS are FREDERICK WILLIAM LAMBERT S LADEN and the 

 Reverend THOMAS W. FYLES, obituaries of whom have ap- 

 peared in the recently issued numbers of Tlic Canadian Ento- 

 mologist for October and November, 1921, respectively. Both 

 men were immigrants to Canada, Mr. Sladen in 1912, Dr. 

 Fyles in 1861. The former was on the staff of the Dominion 

 Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, and was 

 perhaps best known for his book, The Humble Bee, Its Life- 

 History and Hoiv to Domesticate it (London, Macmillan. 

 1912) ; he was drowned off Duck Island in Lake Ontario, Sep- 

 tember 10, 1921. 



Dr. Fyles was born at "The Hermitage," Enfield Chase, 

 England, June 1, 1832, and died at Ottawa, August 9, 1921. 

 He was rector and Immigration Chaplain in the Province of 

 Quebec, 1864-1909. His collections were transferred to the 

 Museum in the Quebec Parliament buildings in the latter year. 

 He was the author of 76 papers in the Reports of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario and in other journals (Canadian 

 Entomologist from 1882 on), dealing with various groups of 

 insects. 



