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Ludwirj Ganglbauer. — We regi'et to have to I'ecord the death of this well 

 known writer on Palsearctic Coleoptcra, on June 5th. He was born at Vienna 

 on October 1st, 1856, and thus had not completed his 56th year. His father was 

 an official in the Ministry of Finance, and his mother came from a Viennese 

 family of merchants ; and he was a nephew of Cardinal Coelestin Josef 

 Ganglbauer. Ganglbauer passed his youth at Vienna, spending some time 

 nearly every siunmer in the country ivith his grandparents, who had a farm 

 at Schiittelberg in Upper Austria. He was a pupil at the Schotten Gymnasium, 

 and then went to the University. His father wanted him to study law, and 

 was much annoyed by the love of his son for natural sciences, which became 

 evident even in his early youth. He collected beetles when he was only six or 

 seven years of age. As his father died the same year in vphich Ganglbauer 

 passed the University examination, the son decided at once to study natural 

 science instead of law. At the University he studied Zoology and especially 

 Botany. In 1878 he passed the examination as Master for Secondary Schools, 

 and entered the Akademische Gymnasium as a probationer, biit soon after, on 

 October 1st, 1880, he was appointed Assistant in the k.k. Hofcabinet, becoming 

 custodian of the collection of Coleoptcra in succession to Dr. H. Krauss, In 

 1883 Ganglbauer married Eugenie Starke, his family life being a very happy 

 one until his death. On January 1st, 1893, he was appointed Gustos, and on 

 May 1st, 1906, in succession to Brauer, he became Director of the Zoological 

 Department of the k.k. Hofmvisevim. Besides his extensive literary activity in 

 the field of systematics of Coleoptera, Ganglbauer has achieved exceptionally 

 great results in the enlargement and arrangement of the collections of Coleo- 

 ptera of the Hofmuseum. Owing to his zeal and knowledge, the collection of 

 beetles in this Museum is now one of the lai'gest in the world, containing an 

 unrivalled material for study, especially of the Palasarctic fauna. A large 

 px'oportion of this material has been collected by Ganglbauer hianself diu-ing 

 his yearly tours, particularly in the Alps, Carpathians, and the Austrian Kai-st 

 districts, Ganglbauer being in large tracts of country the first to explore their 

 fauna as regards Coleoptera. He did not spare himself in any way, either in 

 the field or when engaged on literary work. Some years ago, but especially 

 after the forced completion of Vol. Ill of his "Kafer von Mitteleiu-opa," 

 symptoms of disease appeared from time to time in conseqvience of too 

 strenuous work. The appointment as Director of the Zoological Department 

 burdened him with new and extensive duties, in addition to which he strained 

 every nerve to continue his literary work in Coleoptera. This double strain 

 broke his health. He became dangerovisly ill in the spring of 1911, and died, 

 as above stated, on June 5th of the present year, after undergoing, with the 

 greatest patience, two serious operations. During the last weeks of his life he 

 received the news of his election as Corresponding Member of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Christiania, which gave him great pleasiu'e. He was elected an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of Loudon in 1906. British 

 Coleopterists are much indebted to him for his valuable work on the Carabidw, 



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