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Investigations on other lower animals, as arachnids and worms, but 

 excluding mollusks, are also admitted. The Society adopts as its 

 motto 'Lahore et ordine.' By the word labore the biological and prac- 

 tical work is indicated and by ordine taxonomy. Both ideas 'are sym- 

 bolized by a bee-hive, which will figure with the motto in the seal and 

 medal of the society." The society will meet on the first Tuesday 

 (not a holiday) of each month, except July, August and September, 

 and will publish a monthly bulletin except in the three months named. 

 A double number (Xos. i and 2 of Tomo I) of this B olefin, for 

 Enerc, 1918, has appeared, containing the list of officers and members 

 (2 honorary : Charles Oberthi;r and Antonio Berlese, and 48 ordinary 

 or "nnmerarios"), the steps leading to the foundation of the society, 

 the statutes, the first installment of a Systematic-Geographic Cata- 

 logue of the Coleoptera observed in the Iberian Peninsula, the Py- 

 renees properly so-called and the Balearic Islands by Jose M. de la 

 Fuente y Morales, an annotated list of the Chernetida of Spain by 

 Jose Fernandez Nonidez and two pages of brief notes — 32 pages in 

 all. The officers for 1918, in addition to the president, vice-president 

 and secretary, as named above, are Seiiores Pedro Ayerbe. Vice- 

 Secretary: Jose Cruz Lapazaran, Librarian; Miguel Padilla, Conserva- 

 tor, and Jose Garcia Crespo, Treasurer. 



OBITUARY. 



The .death of Gust.ave Adolphe Baer at Paris. January 

 13', 1 91 8, aged 79 years, was announced at the meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of France, January 23, 1918. A native 

 of Aarau, Switzerland, he joined the Society in 1859, spent 

 the years 1867 to 1882 at Manila, i896-'98 in Peru, crossed 

 the Andes in 1900, and in 1905 made an expedition in the 

 Province of Goyaz, Brazil. In 1886 he published a catalogue 

 of Philippine Coleoptera in the Annalcs of the Society. {Bull. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr., 1918, No. 2.) 



Charles Edwin Sleight, trichopterist and general ento- 

 mologist, died at Ramsey, Xew Jersey, May 20, 191 7. An 

 obituary notice is published in the Journal of the New York 

 Entomological Society for March, 1918. He was born at 

 Yonkers, New York. May 26, i860. 



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