l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May/ 05 



OBITUARY , 



FRIEDRICH MORITZ BRAUER. 



The two distinguished entomologists who took such large 

 parts in the formation of our later classifications of insects, 

 Packard and Brauer, have passed away almost together. In 

 the April News we gave a sketch and portrait of the former. 

 To-day we give a brief account of the Austrian naturalist taken 

 mainly from the Necrology published by his colleague in 

 Vienna, Dr. Anton Handlirsch, in the Deutsche Entomolog- 

 ische Zeitschrift for 1905, Heft I. 



Brauer was born in Vienna May 12, 1832 and died in the same 

 city December 29, 1904. He studied medicine, but early began 

 to publish on insects, first on Neuroptera, later on Diptera. 

 His connection with the Natural History Museum in his native 

 city began in 1861 and continued to his death. He became 

 Privat-dozent at the University in 1872 and Professor in 1874. 



His chief works were A^europ^era Austriaca, 1857, Reports on 

 the Neuroptera of the Novara expedition 1863-66, Verzeichniss 

 der Neuropteren im Sinne Liiine' s 1868, Monographic der CEs- 

 triden 1863, Zweifliigler der Kaiserlichen Museums, partly in col- 

 laboration with von Bergenstamm, seven parts, 1880-1894, 

 and Systematisch zoologische Studien, 1885. 



To Brauer naturalists are indebted for the division of the 

 Diptera into Orthorrhapha and Cyclorrhapha, as well as for 

 minor improvements in the arrangement of that order, for the 

 splitting up of the Linnean Neuroptera and other ordinal 

 changes, for the Campodea theory and for numerous observa- 

 tions on the life history and postembryonic development of 

 many Diptera and Neuroptera. He was elected a correspond- 

 ing member of the American Ent. Soc. October 28, 1897. 



ALBERT A. WRIGHT. 



Albert A. Wright, professor of geology and zoology at Ober- 

 lin College, at Oberlin, as the result of a paralytic stroke, aged 

 59 years. Professor Wright was a native of Oberlin and a 

 graduate of Oberlin College. He obtained the degree of Ph. 

 B. from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1875. 



The deaths of the following entomologists have also been 

 announced : Ernst Brenske, student of the Melolonthidae, in 

 Potsdam, August 13, 1904 ; George Maximilian von Hopff- 

 garten, Coleopterist, in Dresden, November 23, 1904 ; Prof. 

 H. Landois, physiologist and entomologist, in Munster, Janu- 

 ary 29, 1905, and Dr. Henri Louis Frederic de Saussure, 

 February 20, 1905, Geneva, Switzerland. 



