IQOO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45l 



Alfred F. Chatfield died at his home in Lynn, Mass., Feb. 

 6, in his 84th year. ' ' A native of England, he came to Albany 

 when still a young man, and at first worked at the printer's 

 trade, being employed for a number of years as a compos- 

 itor on the Albany Transcript, in its day one of the famous 

 papers of the capital. At the same time Mr. Chatfield carried on 

 his studies in entomology and horticulture, a love of which he 

 acquired in his native country. Nearly half a century ago he 

 acquired property on what is now Chestnut Street, where he 

 erected greenhouses, which he enlarged from time to time and 

 conducted successfully for many years. The Chatfield nurse- 

 ries are still very well remembered by most of the old and 

 middle-aged residents of Albany. He was for many years an 

 officer of the New York Agricultural Society and an active 

 promoter and patron of the annual Stite fairs. He was a 

 man of many accomplishments, posses.sed a companionable 

 and kindly nature, and made many friends, who will learn of 

 his departure with sincere regret. 



Mr. John A. Dakin, an enthusiastic devotee and collector 

 of Lepidoptera, died, after an illness of .six days of spasmodic 

 colic, at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., February 21, 1900, at 

 the age of 48 years. In 1893, Mr. Dakin became interested in 

 the study of Lepidoptera, which he persued until the time of 

 his death, pos.sessing then one of the largest collections of 

 N. A. Lepidoptera in this section. By his death the entomo- 

 logical world loses a valuable and able devotee. He was a 

 charter member and one of the founders of Onondaga Acad- 

 emy of Science and an associate member of A. O. U., and he 

 will be mourned by a large circle of friends. 



Prof. F. L. Harvey. — A little less than two years ago, the 

 little band of .students of the American Odonata had to mourn 

 the death of Prof. D. S. Kellicott. Within a few days they 

 have suffered another great lo.ss in the person of Prof. F. L. 

 Harvey, who died at Orono, Maine, on the morning of Tues- 

 day, March 6, 1900. 



Francis Leroy Harvey was born near Ithaca, N. Y., in 1850. 

 His early education was received in the city .schools of Ithaca. 

 Later his parents moved to Independence, Iowa. He entered 

 the Iowa Agricultural College in 1868, and was graduated with 

 the degree B. S., in 1872. In 1874, he filled the chair of 

 natural .science in Humboldt College, Iowa, and in the same 

 year took a post graduate cour.se in botany at his alma mater. 

 The Summer of 1877 he devoted to the Harvard Summer 



