ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACAomy or matukai. acxsHcn, fhilaiwi tia. 



Vol. XXVI. 



JUNB, 191 5. 



No. 6. 



CONTENTS; 



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Juan GundUch. 

 By CiiABLBs T. RAMsneN, Gmntanaroo, Cuba. 



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Johannes Christopher Gundlach was born on July 17th. 1810, 

 at Marburg. Hesse-Cassel (now Hesse-Nassau). Germany. 

 His father, Johann. a Professor of Mathematics and Physics 

 at the University of Marburfj^. died, leaving a widow, Christina 

 KcdlKT};, and five children to live on two small pensions, one 

 from the State, and the other from the University, not suffi- 

 cient to make ends meet and educate the children. 



It was from his eldest brother, just returned from Cassel, 

 where he had mastered the art of taxidermy, that Johannes then 

 nine years old, got his first notions in this line: though he 

 had long been fond of studying nature in all its forms, so 

 fond indeed that his spare moments were dedicated entirely to 

 it. On one occasion while collecting birds, being about to 

 shoot one, seeing a guard coming up. Gundlach got so ner\'ous 

 while trying to hide his gun under his coat, muzzle up, the 

 hammer getting fouled in his clothing, the cartridge exploded, 



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