June-Sept., 1919.] Leng: Edward Doublf.day Harris. 237 



Anterior tibial spurs slender; basal joints of the posterior tarsi equal in length 

 to the next two. Length, 13.5 mm.; width, 5 mm. 1 rf, 1 J. 



Austin, Tex., 10/20. Collection C. W. Leng. 



The structural characters of this species place it in the group 

 given the generic name Anisotarsus by Chaudoir. It is distinguish- 

 able from A. brevicollis Chaud. by its much larger head, impunctate 

 thorax and shorter and more strongly striate elytra. It closely re- 

 sembles the larger species of the fraternus group of the genus Har- 

 palus. 



EDWARD DOUBLEDAY HARRIS. 



By Charles W. Leng, 



Staten Island, N. Y. 



Edward Doubleday Harris was born September 20, 1839, in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., the son of Dr. Thaddeus W. Harris, the author of "In- 

 sects Injurious to Vegetation," and a descendant of the English people 

 who first settled in New England. He died of pneumonia, without 

 pain, on Sunday afternoon, March 2, 1919, having attained a greater 

 age than any of his forefathers, " the Patriarch of the Harris fam- 

 ily," as he described himself a short time ago. 



He was a man of many activities. By profession an architect, 

 after studying in the Massachusetts School of Architecture, he came 

 to New York in 1872 and became associated with A. T. Stewart in 

 the building of St. Paul's School, St. Mary's School and St. Mary's 

 Cathedral at Garden City and in the remodelling of the Grand Union 

 and Windsor Hotels at Saratoga, and later in the rebuilding and man- 

 agement of the Stewart building at No. 280 Broadway, New York, 

 where he had his own office. Among his other important architec- 

 tural works were Woodlawn, Judge Hilton's 1,600-acre estate at Sara- 

 toga, and the Park Avenue Hotel in New York, at first called the 

 Woman's Hotel. He was so successful in these important matters 

 that he became later one of the executors of the Stewart Estate and 

 afterwards of the Hilton Estate. Outside of these duties, which 

 brought him a sufficient income, he devoted himself to church matters, 

 being warden of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Yonkers 



