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American species, he gave to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Cambridge, possibly out of regard for his lifelong friend, Samuel 

 Henshaw, its curator, carrying many of the boxes there himself 

 before his death; the American Museum of Natural History was also 

 indebted to him for many important donations. He was elected a 

 member of the Xew York Entomological Society, October 20, 1903, 

 and was its Vice-President at the time of his death. Notwithstanding 

 his age, he was a frequent attendant at the meetings, his last ap- 

 pearance being on February 18, 1919; and often a contributor to its 

 proceedings. At the meeting of November 5, 1918, he spoke at length 

 of the Cicindelidse of New Hampshire and especially of his success in 

 personally tracing the distribution of Cicindela ancocisconensis, de- 

 scribed by his father in 1852, on the watershed of the three rivers 

 draining the White Mountains. His personal collecting covered many 

 localities in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con- 

 necticut, Long Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee by numerous short 

 trips, the last having been Southern Pines, N. C, in February, 1919. 

 At various times among his companions on such trips were Wm. T. 

 Davis, A. J. Mutchler, A. H. Manee, Dr. F. E. Lutz and the writer. 



All his entomological work was done after his sixtieth year; it 

 will long be remembered, not only for that reason, itself sufficiently 

 remarkable, but for the light it threw upon the geographical distribu- 

 tion and racial variations of the Cicindelidse. He had just com- 

 pleted, when taken ill, an exhaustive study of the African Cicindelidae 

 collected for the American Museum of Natural History by Herbert 

 Lang and James P. Chapin, the results of which may also be printed. 



Mr. Harris was blessed by nature with great vitality and keen 

 intellect; an unusually prepossessing appearance coupled with a per- 

 sonal charm of manner that drew his friends close to him; an up- 

 rightness that knew no deviation from the straight path, yet so tem- 

 pered by tact and kindliness that it never permitted him to wound 

 the most sensitive ; and a sense of humor that continually came to the 

 surface and dimpled his cheeks. His long life was made heavy at 

 times by the many responsibilities he assumed, but happily cheered by 

 the wife, son and daughter who survive him, and by the host of 

 friends who respected, admired and really loved him. 



