40 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Mr. S. W. Foster, of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, was elected to active membership 

 in the Society. Mr. C. H. T. Townsend was reinstated as an 

 active member of the Society after a long absence from 

 Washington. 



— The secretary announced the death, at Cuyahoga Falls, 

 Ohio, on April 2-^, of Mr. W. V. Warner, a corresponding 

 member, and formerly an active member, of the Society. 



Wallace Vincent Warner was born at Akron, Ohio, Decem- 

 ber I, 1882. When he was four years of age his parents 

 moved to Washington, D. C, but later returned to Ohio and 

 lived in Akron and Columbus. In 1889 they settled in Cuya- 

 hoga Falls, where Vincent attended the public schools until 

 1898, when the family again moved to Washington. Here he 

 entered the Central High School and became much interested 

 in biology and entomology. During the summer of 1901 he 

 became a volunteer assistant in the Division of Insects of the 

 U. S. National Museum and later was appointed to a tempor- 

 ary position as a preparator of the exhibit of insects. While 

 engaged in this work he interested himself in constructing 

 groups of insects so as to show them in their natural surround- 

 ings. His groups showing the carpenter bees and their bur- 

 rov/s, a hill of red ants, and a nest of yellow jackets display 

 the results of much careful observation and painstaking work. 

 Later Mr. Warner was appointed preparator in the Bureau 

 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and was 

 one of the two sent to St. Louis in 1904 to install and care 

 for the exhibit of the Bureau at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 

 position. From there he returned to his old home at Cuya- 

 hoga Falls, where his parents had again taken up their resi- 

 dence, and turned his attention to horticulture. His interest 

 in entomology continued and, as a member of the Summit 

 County Horticultural Society, he served as committee on ento- 

 mology. Last summer his health, never very robust, began to 

 fail, and as months passed he went slowly but steadily down- 

 ward to the time of his death. 



Mr. Warner had a personality which gained him many 

 friends. He was unselfish and happy in disposition, witty 



