450 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



OBITUARY. 



Hugo Soltau died last Summer in Europe, after having left 

 this country in May on account of failing health. 



He was born at Elmshorn, in the North German Province 

 of Holstein, forty-four years ago, and never married. At the 

 age of eighteen he came to America and had been for many 

 years past in the employ of the drug house of Lehn & Fink, of 

 New York, as traveling salesman. This occupation gave the 

 opportunity of meeting entomologists and making collections 

 in various parts of the country, especially in the South. He 

 went as far west as Salt Lake and was well known to collectors 

 in most of the larger cities and town of the Mississippi Valley 

 and the Eastern States. 



Mr. Soltau was a man of remarkable enthusiasm and pos- 

 ses.sed of much personal magnetism. The long enforced ab- 

 sence from his collections interfered with the acquisition of 

 much technical knowledge of classification, but as a collector 

 he had few equals. To his industry and skill science owes 

 many a hitherto undiscovered species and the recapture of 

 others which had been for years unknown except as relics of 

 some historic cabinet. 



Entomology has lost one of her most faithful followers, and 

 many of those who remain will long miss his visits and the 

 inspiration of his ardent interest. — H. F. W. 



Andrew Bolter, probably the oldest, and one of the best- 

 known entomologists in the West, died on March i8th. For 

 forty-five years he was a resident of Chicago and was regarded 

 as a high local authority. 



Mr. Bolter contributed no books to scientific literature. He 

 frequently, however, in response to requests for information 

 from instructors and students of in.sect life, wrote lengthy let- 

 ters on various pha.ses of the subject, and his reputation for 

 practical knowledge was widespread. He was a member of 

 the Academy of Science in Chicago, New York Entomological 

 Society and a corresponding member of the American Ento- 

 mological Society. 



From boyluKjcl until a few years before his death, at 80 years 

 of age, Mr. Bolter's chief pursuit outside of business hours was 

 the collection of injects. His collection of beetles, butterflies 

 and other insects of innumerable kinds, said to be one of the 

 most complete private collections in the world, will probably 

 go to the University of Illinois. 



Mr. Bolter, who was l)orn in vSigmeringen, left Germany be- 

 cause the Government resented his sup^xwed connection with 

 the revolution in 1848. 



