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Halle, and finally settled at Buenos Ayres, where he became director of 

 the Museum of Natural History, a position he held to within a few days 

 of his death. He continued to publish on Entomology, the insects of his 

 new home i.ifording ample materials for many valuable papers, both in 

 publications of the National Museum and in European journals, and also 

 a work on the physical features of the Argentine Republic with an atlas, 

 which latter included two parts devoted to the Lepidoptera of the country. 

 The Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers enumerates no less 

 than 164 articles (exclusive of separate works) from his pen down to 1883, 

 and there have since been many more. He has been succeeded as Di- 

 rector of the Museum by Dr. C. Berg." 



Just after the MS. of our June number went to the printer we learned 

 of the death of Dr. Carl August Dohrn, at Stettin, in the 86th year of 

 his age. Dr. Dohrn was interested in Coleoptera, but he had a regard 

 for insects of other orders, if only for the reason that it brought him in 

 communication with the lovers of them. On the death at the compara- 

 tively early age of 39, of Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, the first president of the 

 Entomological Society of Stettin, which had been founded in 1839, C. A. 

 Dohrn, who was then officiating as secretary of the society, was selected 

 for the vacant post, and at the ensuing anniversary meeting, Nov. 5, 1843, 

 was duly elected president, a position he continued to hold for upwards 

 of forty years. The " Entomological Zeitung," which is the organ of the 

 Stettin Society, was edited by Dr. Dohrn as long as he remained president, 

 and contains copious articles by him, many of them descriptive of new 

 species of beetles, and many relating to authors and their works and notes 

 on travel. His own collection of Coleoptera was very extensive, almost 

 unique in completeness of families and genera. Dr. Dohrn besides being 

 an entomologist, was an accomplished linguist, litterateur and musician. 



Entomological News for June, was mailed May 27, 1S92. 



