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since well before E. C. Van Dyke's retirement in 1939, has trained a notable 

 series of able eoleopterists. 



In 1947 E. H. Arnett (b. 1919), then at Cornell University, founded The 

 Coleopterists' Bulletin, the first American journal of coleopterology. 



COLEOPTEROLOGY IN AUSTRALIA, NeW ZEALAND, AND ELSEWHERE 



Indigenous coleopterology in Australia dates from the founding of an Ento 

 mological Society of New South Wales in Sydney in 1862 by Sir William Mac- 

 leay (b. 1820, d. 1891), the Reverend R. L. King (b. 1823, d. 1897), and others. 

 George Masters (b. 1837, d. 1912) published a Catalogue of the Described Cole- 

 optera of Australia in 1871, with a second edition in 1885-1887 and a supple- 

 ment in 1895-1896. The Reverend Thomas Blackburn (b. 1844, d. 1912) de- 

 scribed 3,069 species of Australian beetles between 1888 and 1912. Other note- 

 worthy students of Australian Coleoptera have been T. G. Sloane (b. 1858, d. 

 1932), a specialist on Carabidae; A. M. Lea (b. 1868, d. 1932), of the South Aus- 

 tralian Museum at Adelaide, and H. J. Carter (b. 1858, d. 1940), who deposited 

 his collection in the National Museum at Melbourne. A. Musgrave (b. 1895) 

 published a useful Bibliography of Aust7'alian Entomology in 1930. In 1926 

 there were 16,660 species of Coleoptera known from Australia. 



The indigenous study of New Zealand Coleoptera is virtually the work of 

 one man. Major Thomas Broun (b. 1838, d. 1919), of Auckland. During thirty- 

 nine years preceding his death Broun described some 4,323 species from the 

 archipelago, of which about 3,500 were named by him. G. V. Hudson in his in- 

 teresting book, Neiv Zealand Beetles (1934), suggested that perhaps as many 

 as half of Major Broun 's species may be synonyms ! 



The author of this paper lacks the knowledge, even if he were permitted the 

 space, to attempt a country-by-country evaluation of Coleoptera studies. South- 

 ern South America is the site of some work, of which Carlos Bruch's (b. 1869, 

 d. 1943) Catdlogo Sistemdtico de los Coleopteros de la Repiiblica Argentina 

 (1911-1914), with Suplemento I-IV (1915-1928), is an outstanding example. 

 South Africa is likewise the home of some indigenous study of beetles, the Bel- 

 gian-born L. A. Peringuey (d. 1924) having been one of the leading contributors. 



Indigenous coleopterology developed late in Japan, where most of the species 

 have been described by Europeans. H. Kono, T. Kano, and Y. Miwa are out- 

 standing among Japanese coleopterists, the last being the author of A System- 

 matic Catalogue of Formosan Coleoptera (1931). In China, before the Com- 

 munist revolution, a certain amount of coleopterological work was under way, 

 especially at some of the Japanese- and American-sponsored institutions. Y. 

 Ouchi's Biographical Introduction to the Study of Chinese Insects (1934), C. F. 

 Wu's Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium, Vol. 3, "Coleoptera" (1937), and J. L. 

 Gressitt's Longicornes de Chine (1951) are examples. In Hawaii, E. C. Zim- 

 merman (b. 1912) has been studying the beetles of Oceania since 1934. 



Fossil Beetles 



The early students of fossil beetles, like 0. Heer (b. 1809, d. 1883) and S. H. 

 Scudder (b. 1837, d. 1911), assigned the remains with great exactness to living 



