ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '14 



OBITUARY. 



CHARLES S. WELLES. 



Charles S. Welles died at 4.20 o'clock on the morning of Feb- 

 ruary 24, 1914, at his home, the "Highland," Elwyn, Delaware 

 County, Pennsylvania. His death was due to embolism. He 

 was 67 years old. 



Mr. Welles was the son of Charles Roger Welles, and was 

 born in Springfield, Illinois, where his family were neighbors 

 to Abraham Lincoln. For a time his father and Mr. Lincoln 

 were associated in law practice. 



He was graduated from Yale in the class of 1870. He was 

 an active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, of which he was a life member; a member of the 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society and a life member of the 

 Delaware County Historical Society. He was interested in the 

 Presbyterian Social Union of Philadelphia and a member of 

 the Middletown Presbyterian Church, in Elwyn. His widow, 

 who was Miss Maria Pancoast, of Village Green, and two 

 daughters, Mrs. E. A. E. Palmquist, wife of a Cambridge, 

 Mass., Baptist minister, and Miss Louise Ives Welles, survive. 



Mr. Welles was elected to membership in the Entomological 

 Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and in the 

 American Entomological Society, in 1891, and the minutes of 

 these bodies, as published in the early volumes of Entomologi- 

 cal News, record his frequent participation in the meetings. 

 He was chiefly interested in the Lepidoptera, but was always 

 glad to aid those engaged in the study of any group of insects, 

 as Mr. C. W. Johnson has intimated in his article in the News 

 for March last, page 125. Mr. Welles was the author of an 

 article on the "Destructive Work of Daremma catalpae," in 

 the Neivs for December, 1898. For many years he served on 

 the Finance Committee of the American Entomological Soci- 

 ety. His fellow members tender their sincere sympathy to his 

 family in our common loss. 



P. P. C. 



