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on the life-history of the Bumblebee, illustrated with excellent lantern 

 slides, showing the various stages in the nesting life, methods of rear- 

 ing and establishing of colonies. The nesting habits were discussed 

 in detail, how and where colonies are established by the queen in the 

 spring of the year. The successive stages beginning with the honey- 

 pot, then the egg cell, then the emergence of the adult, were shown. 

 The different forms of cell-making by several of the species observed, 

 and the most serious parasites were also shown. The speaker then 

 explained how experimental colonies are introduced in the field and 

 laboratory, and the apparatus used. It was evident that the speaker 

 was well acquainted with his subject, and that it must have taken a 

 number of years of study in order to secure the information and technic 

 which he possesses. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Recorder. 



OBITUARY. 



Thanks to Dr. T. Tzabo-Patay of the Hungarian National 

 Museum, I have recently received the January-February. 1916. 

 number of Rorartani Lapok which includes an obituary notice 

 of our lamented SANDOR MOCSARV. For the sake of those 

 interested, to whom the facts are not accessible, I venture to 

 introduce the following free translation of the German sum- 

 mary published in the same place. 



A. Mocsary. 1841-1915. The highly meritorious Hymen- 

 opterologist, A. Mocsary, Abteilungsdirektor i. P. of the 

 Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, died suddenly 

 Dec. 26. 1915, after a protracted illness. He was the Nestor 

 of the Hungarian entomologists, a generally esteemed scholar, 

 whose death will be deeply mourned by his colleagues. 

 Apropos of his 40 year service jubilee, Roi'artani Lapok, Vol. 

 17, 1910, pp. 161-175. published a sketch of his life ami this 

 obituary refers back to that sketch. To complete, it remains 

 to be. noticed that Mocsary was born in Nagyvarad, Sept. 27, 

 1841, where he also pursued his studies. In 1870 he was 

 appointed as assistant in the National Museum, to which insti- 

 tution he belonged for 44 years as an energetic official. The 

 first of lune. 1915, he entered on his well-earned retirement; 

 still he could not long enjoy this as his stomach trouble re- 

 curred and caused him to take to his sick bed. The burial 

 took place December 28. On this occasion Dr. G. Iforvath. 

 representing the National Museum and the I 'nganselie 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften, and J. Jablonowski, the Ung. 



