1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I3J 



worked contemporaneously with LeConte, Ridings, Newman 

 and others whose names are familiar to the entomologists of 

 to-day as belonging to men who, in spite of public prejudice and 

 accompanying adversities, bravely adhered to their favorite pur- 

 suit, and who were really the pioneers of Entomology in America. 

 Mr. Feldman was born in Celle, Hanover, Germany, in 1814, 

 and came to the United States at an early age, where he carried 

 on his entomological endeavors, and at the time of his death 

 had accumulated a large collection of Coleoptera, which were 

 his favorites. He died Nov. 12, 1887. — F. 



NOTES ON EUROPEAN ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 



By Philip P. Calvert. 



(See the News for January, 1S96, p. 4.) 



v.— BERLIN. 



The entomological collections of the Royal Frederic William 

 (Konigliche Friedrich-Wilhelm) University in Berlin are con- 

 tained in the Museum fiir Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, in 

 the same extensive building with the Zoological and Paleonto- 

 logical collections and the Zoological Institute. The Director 

 of the zoological collection is Prof Karl Mobius. The entomo- 

 logical staff consists of Dr. Ferdinand Karsch (Orthoptera, 

 Odonata, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera), H. J. Kolbe (Coleoptera, 

 Neuroptera), Dr. H. Stadelmann (Myriapoda, Arachnida, Hy- 

 menoptera). Dr. B. Wandolleck (Diptera), Dr. R. Lucas (Hy- 

 menoptera), E. W. Rubsaamen (Cecidiae), and E. Schmidt and 

 M. Ude, preparators. 



The collection of Insects forming, a part of the "show" col- 

 lections in Zoology and Paleontology, open freely to the public 

 on three days in the week, is on the ground floor, and consists 

 of a general systematic collection and one of German insects of 

 all orders with the various developmental stages, preparations of 

 insect anatomy, galls and their producers, specimens of insect 

 architecture, two revolving cases for displaying metallic colors 

 of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, and, in some of the windows, 

 photographic lantern slides of insect parts, and a series of de- 

 nuded Lepidopterous wings to show venation. 



The "study" collections occupy a room 34 x 16 metres 

 (hi. 5 X 52.5 feet) on the third floor ("zweiter stock" of Ger- 



