100 THE KNTOM()l.()(ilST's KKCOKD. 



investigations of typhus in Pohuid. While in Poland he was infected 

 with trench fever, from the lice with which he was working, and lay 

 in Praga Hospital, only anxious to get out to complete his work. 

 Some of his letters from Warsaw show, amongst other things, how 

 fully he was aware of the danger of typhus infection from the excreta 

 of infected lice, a danger to which, a few days ago, he succumbed, 

 knowing full well before he started, that, at his age, the mortality from 

 typhus is over 50 per cent. 



During the past two years he had been working at the typhus-virus 

 in lice, and in January he was lent to the Egyptian Government. His 

 previous illness had broken his health, besides showing what danger 

 was involved ; but he knew he was the one man in England who could 

 do the entomological work, and so he went to his death like the gallant 

 gentleman he was. He and his fellow worker. Dr. Arkwright, for 

 whose recovery we hope, were both infected by the excreta, almost 

 unmanageable when dry, of the known-to-be-infected lice with which 

 they were working, at the Public Health Laboratories, Cairo. 



Oui' lamented colleague died of " pulmonary complications following 

 on an attack of Typhus Fever contracted in the course of his work." 



The funeral service at the new British Cemetery, Old Cairo, which 

 Avas conducted by the Rev. C. C. Hamilton of All Saints, was attended 

 by a large number of people representing various l)ranches of scientific 

 work in Cairo. The body was carried to the grave by his friends and 

 colleagues both British and Egyptian, and a touching mark of the 

 appreciation of his work was the large number of Egyptian doctors 

 and scientists present. 



Arthur Bacot had no more medical qualifications than Louis 

 Pasteur, but he belongs to the same ilhistrious line of the real makers 

 of medicine ; and to yet another, of the martyrs of science. Our loss 

 is the country's loss, Europe's loss, the World's loss. — FLE.P. 



Corrections. — 1. I am grateful to Mr. Muschamp in hint. Beconf, 

 vol. xxxiv., p. 78, for kindly criticising my aiticle in I.e. pp. 48 to 48. 

 He IS quite right, I find now that I did not take Zi/i/ooio faiistci var. 

 iiicaca on the Grand Saleve, as stated by me on page 48. The speci- 

 men is Z. faiista var. juciinda. It was wrongly identified by a frien<i 

 in London. 



2. Thanks to the Rev. G. Wheeler, I wish to correct another 

 mistake on page 47, lines 86 and 87, to delete " including a fine speci- 

 men of the female var. /lan'ilor,'' and to substitute "and a large female 

 of ri('heii(,s ar()iis [ariijiynijuouion),'' 



8. I also wish to thank Dr. Verity for his kind criticism of my 

 "Notes on Collecting in Italy," which occurs on p. 206 of vol. xxxi. 

 In my notes on collecting at Arquata, in 1918, and at Tiu-in, in 11)19, 

 " llcsperia inalvai'' should read " Uesjicria malrnitlc's" in all cases. 



4. In the note on Arquata " araninwnsis " should be substituted for 

 " cor i don," vol. xxxi., pp. 184, 170, 171, and 178; ''ilicis" in place of 

 " pnaii," in all cases I.e. pp. 171, 172 ; and '' npini " for " /innu\" I.e. 

 p. 186. I took KlHijia sj}i)ii at Arquata from .Tune 16tb, 191 (S, to July 

 lOtii, but omitted the nscord of it. 



5. On p. 210, vol. xxxi., '• Sati/nis aiethiisa " abould read " -Safi/niH 

 statiliiiiis." With many apologies to readers. — E. B. Asmiiky (F.E.S.), 

 86, Bulstrode Road, Hounslow. 



