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THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE. 



The Bulletin of the Society for its meeting of January 14, 1914, con- 

 taining the brief addresses of its retiring (J. Sainte-Claire Deville) and 

 incoming (C. Alluaud) presidents, affords some interesting glimpses of 

 the progress and life of this, the oldest of existing entomological soci- 

 eties. The membership has increased as follows : 1832, 98 members ; 

 in 1842, 183; 1852, 192; 1862, 323; 1872, 368; 1882, 373; 1892, 431; 

 1902, 484; 1912, 522. During 1913 the funds of the Society were in- 

 creased by about 7000 francs, while at this January meeting a bequest 

 of 25,000 francs from Dr. Henri Marmottan, a member, who died 

 January 6, 1914, was announced. M. Alluaud* in the course of his 

 remarks said : "Gentlemen, I am certainly not the only one to have 

 remarked that our meetings in general lack a little in animation. The 

 reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting . . . does not 

 suffice to give attraction to our gatherings. It ought not to constitute 

 the principal and sometimes, alas, the only subject of the session." 

 He called for more frequent remarks under the rubric "Captures and 

 Observations," notices of the chief and most interesting additions to 

 the library and a renewal of the former custom of an annual excursion 

 into the country. 



OBITUARY. 



ERNEST OLIVIER. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of France, on 

 January 28, 1914, the President announced the death of Ernest 

 Olivier at Moulins, on January 26, at the age of 70 years. He 

 had been a member of the society since 1873, was for many 

 years editor of the Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais and 

 had especially devoted himself to the study of the fire-flies 

 (Lampyridae). He took part in the Second International Con- 

 gress of Entomology at Oxford in August, 1912, where he 

 presided at one of the sectional meetings. 



E. A. POPENOE. A. G. HAM MAR. 



The Journal of Economic Entomology for February, 1914, 

 contains brief biographical sketches of Edwin Alonzo Popenoe 

 (July i, i855-November, 1913), for many years professor of 

 entomology at the Kansas State Agricultural College at Man- 

 hattan, Kan., and of Alfred Gottlieb Hammar (May 19, 1880- 

 October 15, 1913), at the time of his accidental death an as- 

 sistant in the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. It will be recalled 

 that resolutions from Cornell University on the death of Mr. 

 Hammar were published in the NEWS for December last, page 

 480. 



