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is «n eternal recommencement. In place of a siege we have the 

 'taubcn'— sinister passenger pigeons— one of whidi dropped a bomb, 

 the day before yesterday, in the Rue Guy-de-LAbrosse. Twy near the 

 Museum of Natural History." 



The following members of the Society are senrtof ia the Army: 

 Dr R Jeannel. secretary: Dr. Maurice Royer. first asaistaat secretary; 

 J lire Deville, L. Semickon. J. Surconf, J. Aehord, A. Uag- 



d.: cfh dt MmMon, Georges KoeckHm, Dr. Ilanrice Bedel. G. 



Billiard. V. Laboissi^rc, A. MeqoigDoa, Dr. L. Bettinger (whoae 

 collection was destroyed in the bombardment of Rhetms). L. Begnia. 

 G. Babault (recently returned from an expedition in the Hinulayas), 

 P. Chabanaud. A. Uvall^ L. Lcgras. P. Vayssi^re. J. Vincent. /. 

 Auhail, J. Hervf-Baaifi. E. Roabaud and E. Dattin. (Those whose 

 names appear in halki have been woo p de d te actioo. Elsewhere 

 in this News the names of those kiHcd in hattie are ghrcn.1 



At the end of the meeting of Nov. ii. 1914, *H. A. Bonrgotn. con- 

 sidering that the closing of the miH at 8 o'clock deprives ns of the 

 traditional 'humid session.' proposed to contribute to the 'soldiers* 

 tobacco ftmd.' the saving* ^raliied from this fact. This gen- 



erous tbooght of oar Ai .lirarian was adopted and the col- 



Icctioa produced a son which will procnre for thirty-two of oar 

 brave soldiers m the bottom of their trench<>« the joy of receiving 

 each a package of 'caporaL'** 



At the meeting of July 23 the Pluset Prixe wu unaaimoasly voted 

 to P. de Pcycrimhoff for his memoirs oa the larvae of Coleoptera. 

 (BuUetim, 1914. Nos. 14-17). 



OBITUARY. 



( From recent fuimt>ers of the Bulletin of the Entomological 

 Society of France for 1014. we learn of the death of the fol- 

 lowing entomologists.] 



HeNii Ac HARD DE BoNVOULOiR died at Paris, Jaly 13, 

 IQ14. at the age of 75 years. Undertaking the study of the 

 Coleoptera when a young man, under the direction of C. 

 Jaquelin Duval, he first turned his attention to the Throscidae. 

 of which he produced a monograph in 1859. After some ad- 

 ditional papers on this group in i860 and 1862, he turned his 

 attention to the Eucnemidae. His monograph of this family 

 was published by the French Society in four parts from 1871 

 to 1875 and amounts to 906 pages and 42 plates. He became 



