GEORGE HENRY HORN. Vll 



as present at the meetings of June 14th and July 26th, in Heidel- 

 berg, in Stettin at the Entomologisches Verein on June 22d, and in 

 Berlin. Of the last visit he wrote, on October 9th, 1888, " I arrived 

 home safely September 30th after a very pleasant visit to my friends 

 in Europe, About the middle of July I went to Stettin and spent 

 several days with Dr. Dohrn .... In the Berlin Museum they 

 were very kind to me and I had good chance to study the types of 

 Erichson. I can safely say that I have now seen n)ore genera of 

 Melolonthide Scarabseids than any other person." This year his 

 appearance at the " seances" of the Society in Paris on June 27th 

 and August 8th was in his capacity as an Honorary Member. 



The minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in Philadelphia, for November, 1889, record that a com- 

 munication was received from the Faculty of Biology, recommending 

 the establishment of a Professorship of Entomology and suggesting 

 Dr. Horn as incumbent. The recommendation was adopted and an 

 election set for the next meeting of the Board. Accordingly, Dr. 

 Horn was elected Professor of Entomology, December 3d, 1889, and 

 his acceptance is recorded in the minutes for January 7th, .1890, 

 along with that of Edward D. Cope, who had just been elected to 

 the chair of Mineralogy and Geology. Dr. Horn nev^er gave any 

 instruction under this election, although for some years the announce- 

 ment in the University Catalogues read " Biology 21. Entomology. 

 The General Anatomy of Insects, with Practical Exercises in Sys- 

 tematic Coleopterology." Subsequent to his death the Trustees 

 adopted a minute suitable thereto. 



In the Spring of 1893, Dr. Horn revisited California, and was 

 introduced at the meeting of the California Academy of Sciences at 

 San Francisco, May 1st. 



In 1895 he began to experience considerable difficulty with his 

 hearing, and his friends noted, with pain, other signs of increasing 

 feebleness. October 26th, 1896, saw him for the last time at our 

 entomological meetings, although he continued to visit the rooms of 

 the Columbia Club, a social organization, of which he was a member. 

 While engaged in a game of cards here on December 26th, 1896, 

 he was stricken with paralysis of the left side, although he did not 

 entirely lose consciousness. He was removed to the house of his 

 half-brother, at 942 Franklin Street, where he had resided for a 

 number of years, and received the best of medical attention and 

 careful nursing. He recovered sufficiently to converse with his 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. APRIL, 1898. 



