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Dk. Alpheus Spring Packard, an Honorary Fellow of this 

 Society, died at Providence, Rhode Island, on the 14th 

 February, 1905. He had held the position of Professor of 

 Zoology and Geology in Brown University since 1878. No 

 one did more than he to advance the knowledge of entomology 

 in the United States. Among his voluminous contributions 

 to science, the list of which fills nearly ten pages of the 

 catalogues of the library of the Entomological Society, may be 

 singled out for mention his monograph of the " Bombycine 

 Moths," and the Text-book of Entomology published in 1898, 

 in which he sums up the existing knowledge on the anatomy, 

 physiology, embryology, and metamorphoses of insects, with 

 full bibliographical lists ; this work may be described as 

 supplying a well-ordered guide to all that was known on the 

 wide range of subjects of which it treats. Mr. Packard was 

 well known for his advocacy of " neolamarckian " views. 



The loss of Honorary Fellows during the past year includes 

 another distinguished name, that of M. Henri F. de Saussure, 

 of Geneva, eminent in many departments of life, grandson of 

 one whose name was once famous throughout Europe as 

 having made the ascent of Mont Blanc in 1787. Born in 

 1829, he wrote at an early period of life his monograph of 

 the "Solitary Wasps," which he completed in Paris, where he 

 became known to some of the distinguished men of science. 

 In 1854 he was granted the diploma of Doctor by the 

 University of Giessen. In the same year he started on a 

 course of travel, which he pursued through the West Indies 

 and parts of the North-American continent, and after his 

 return to Europe in 1856 he began the publication of a vast 

 number of works on a great variety of subjects — geological, 

 zoological, ethnological, geographical and historical. Especially 

 large were his contributions to Entomology, and among these 

 the Hymenoptera and the Orthoptera in particular claimed his 

 attention. He died on the 20th February, 1905, lamented for 

 his deep and wide knowledge and for his attractive personal 

 qualities. 



A veteran English entomologist, John William Douglas, 

 elected in 1845 a Fellow of this Society, of which he became 

 President in 1861, died on the 28th August, 1905, in his 



