June, 1910.] The Rev. J. L. Zabriskie. 127 



THE REV. J. L. ZABRISKIE. 



The Rev. Jeremiah Lott Zabriskie, a former president of the 

 New York Entomological Society, died on April 2, after a brief 

 illness, in his seventy-sixth year. Notwithstanding his advanced age, 

 Mr. Zabriskie was an active member of the Society, in constant at- 

 tendance at its meetings. His physical and mental powers were 

 remarkably preserved; he took part in the 1909 Decoration Day Ex- 

 cursion and at the meeting of March 15, about two weeks before 

 his death, he spoke for an hour on the anatomy of Bruchus discoideus, 

 illustrating his remarks with lantern slides prepared by himself. 



Born in the old town of Flatbush, Long Island, February 3, 1835, 

 Mr. Zabriskie received his early education at Erasmus Hall Academy; 

 later he attended Columbia College and was graduated in 1853. He 

 prepared for the ministry at Rutgers Theological Seminary and held 

 many important pastorates up to his retirement in 1883. From that 

 time Mr. Zabriskie devoted his life to studies in natural science, 

 principally in microscopy and the microscopic structure of insects. 

 He was skilled in the preparation of microscopic material ; made a 

 collection of sections of wood and mounts of parts of insects. The 

 Society often had the pleasure of hearing him explain the most 

 minute structures and of seeing his figures thrown upon the screen. 

 He also interested himself in the small hymenopterous parasites and 

 reared from the cells of Ceratina dupla two very remarkable para- 

 sites which have been named in his honor Diomorus zahriskii Cres. 

 and Axima zabriskii How. 



In addition to his activity in the New York Entomological So- 

 ciety Mr. Zabriskie was a member of the Microscopical Society and 

 of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, serving each for many years 

 as its president. 



Gifted by nature with a noble presence and a rich and powerful 

 voice, Mr. Zabriskie had further so cultivated his oratory that his 

 addresses before the Society were followed with pleasure by his 

 fellow members, to whom his death, coming though it did painlessly 

 and in the fullness, of years, brings with it a sense of irreparable loss. 



