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JOHN ARTHUR GROSSBECK 



Born February 2, 1883; Died April 8, 1914. 



All entomologists will join with their fellow members of the New 

 York Entomological Society in their sorrow at the death of Mr. 

 Grossbeck. Although his chief interest was in the Geometridse, his 

 entomological activities were so general that his name was familiar 

 to many who had not been fortunate enough to know him personally. 

 For several years he had been an assistant in the American Museum 

 of Natural History where he applied himself with his characteristic 

 industry and zeal to whatever needed to be done, even at a sacrifice to 

 his specialty. He leaves a large mass of unpublished manuscript in- 

 cluding a practically completed paper on the Lepidoptera of Florida. 

 For some months before his death he had been suffering from a severe 

 attack of diabetes and, accompanied by his brother, sailed on March 

 18 for an extended Caribbean trip in the hope that it would benefit his 

 health. Unfortunately, it did not have the desired effect and he died 

 a few weeks later while at Barbados. A more extended account of 

 his scientific work will be published in a future number of the Journal. 



