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At the time of Mr. Bollman's untimely death at Waycross, Georgia, 

 July 13, 1889, he left several uncompleted manuscripts dealing with myri- 

 opoda. These and all his previously published papers were brought together, 

 edited, and published by Dr. L. M. Underwood, in Bulletin 46, United 

 States National Museum. Practically all that is known about the myriapods 

 of Indiana we owe to Charles H. Bollman. His early death was a great loss 

 to zoological science and to Indiana. 



But the one who has done most for Indiana entomologj^ is anothe'' 

 Indiana University man who received inspiration from Jordan and Branner- 

 I refer to W. S. Blatchley. Blatchley began observing and studying the 

 insects of the state in the early 80's, and soon began publishing papers on 

 grasshoppers, butterflies and beetles. Following a number of short papers, 

 there appeared in 1903 a large volume of 558 pages on the Orthoptera of 

 Indiana, an illustrated descriptive catalogue of all the species of this group 

 known to occur in the state. In 1910 appeared another monumental work 

 ot 1,386 pages on the Coleoptera or Beetles of Indiana. And only recently 

 (November, 1916) Professor Blatchley has published another volume of 

 682 pages and 155 illustrafons on the "Rhynchophora of Northeastern 

 America." This monograph includes of course descriptions of all the species 

 of that group known from Indiana. 



These three great volumes are among the most important entomological 

 publications ever issued and contribute enormously to the knowledge of 

 the insects of Indiana. 



Another Indiana man who has contributed many important papers to the 

 entomological lit<'rature of the state is Mr. P^dward Bruce Williamson 

 (Marion, Ind., .July 10, 1878 )of Bluffton. Mr. Williamson has special- 

 ized in the Odonata or dragonflies and is the American authority on 

 that group. 



I have not been able to consult a full list of his papers, but I find that he 

 has contributed probably more than half a hundred titles to this subject. 

 Mr. Williamson has studied the Odonata of Indiana very carefully. One 

 of his first pajM-rs, published in the 24th Annual Report of the Department 

 of (leology and Natural Resources of Indiana in 1900, is a descriptive list 

 of all th(> species of dragonflies then known to occur in Indiana. Many of 

 Mr. Williamson's papers which followed relate to the Odonata fauna of In- 

 diana. These papers are not only taxonomic and faunistic, but they eon- 

 tain much regarding the life histories of these interesting insects. 



Still another Indiana man who has written on the Odonata of Indiana 

 is Clarence H. Kennedy, who studied th(^ dragonflies of the Winona Lake 

 region and published a Hst ot the species. Dr. Charles B. Wilson (Exeter, 



Me., Oct. 20, 1861 ) of Westfield, Massachusetts, while a member of 



the Lake Maxinkuckee survey party studying the parasites of the fishes of 

 that lake, also collected and studied the draeonflies of that region. His 



