160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '22 



Dr. JOSEPH LANE HANCOCK, one of the leading American 

 authorities on Orthoptera, died of heart disease in Chicago, 

 March 12, 1922. Born in that city on April 12. 1864, it is said 

 that he "had attained almost equal distinction as a physician, 

 naturalist, landscape artist and as an author." 



In the study of Orthoptera. Dr. Hancock specialized on the 

 Tettiginae (Acrydiinae) or "Grouse Locusts." His work on 

 this group was equal in volume to, if not more extensive than, 

 that of any other authority on the suhject. His scientific pub- 

 lications, begun in 1895, continued until 1918. when press of 

 work as a practicing physician forced him to abandon the 

 study. 



His largest publications in chronological order, are : The 

 Tettiyidac of North America, The Tcttigidae of Ceylon, a 

 series of Studies of the Tefriginac in the Oxford University 

 Museum and Indian Tetriginae. His collection of Acrydiinae. 

 one of the largest in the world, has been kept in an exception- 

 ally good state of preservation, and now forms a portion of 

 the Hebard Collection, deposited at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, having been acquired by purchase. 



He was also the author of Nature Sketches in Temperate 

 America (Chicago, McClurg & Co., 1911), "a popular account 

 of insects birds and plants, treated from some aspects of their 

 evolution and ecological relations," the last chapter being an 

 "interpretation of environment as exemplified in the Orthop- 

 tera." 



Dr. Hancock was at one time Curator of the Chicago Ento- 

 mological Society and Editor of its Occasional Memoirs. He 

 was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the Entomological Society of London. 



Always kind and liberal in co-operation with other students 

 of the Orthoptcra, it is our regret that we knew Dr. Hancock 

 only through infrequent correspondence. MORGAN HEBARD. 



Correction. 



Insert the word "catalogs" after "manuscript," page 118, 4th line from 

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