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wood was kept in a dry kiln for ten dajrs and subjected to a tempera- 

 ture of lao to 150 degrees. He suggested that all waste should be 

 destroyed and the lumber to be used left in a kiln for a longer period 

 ai ted to as high a temperature as possible. Mr. Wenzel ex- 



it 1 collection of Staphylinus and allied genera. 



Lepidoptera. — Mr. Hornig said tkat he had had fifty men allowed 

 him to rid the public squares and parks of the egg masses of the 

 tussodc moth, which were very numerous this winter. Mentioned one 

 branch about three inches in diameter and about four feet long on 

 which he counted over two hundred egg masses. During January and 

 February he had collecte<l ciKbtv-two backets of these masses and he 

 had figured on from three m five thousand masses to the backet and 

 about three hundred eggs to the mass. 



Diptcra.— Mr. Harbcck exhibited a pair of Comdidta lata Coq. from 

 White Fish Point. Michigan. Also spoke of a conftuioa in collections 

 of iMfhna giitnt Unn. with allied spedcs. 



Adjovrned to the aaacx. 



GnacB M. Ganuts, Secretary. 



OBITUARY . 



Carl Brunnfi von Wattenwyl. 



Although this famous Orthopterist passed away on the 

 twenty-fourth of August, 1914. at KirchUorf on the Krems in 

 I'pper Austria, news of his death reached America but a few 

 months ago. and this but a brief notice of the close of his long 

 and active life of over ninety -one years. Brunner stands with 

 Saussure as one of the two greatest Orthoptcrists of his day. 

 as to these two men we owe practically all the groundwork 

 and a vast proportion of the fi<*taile<l study of the present 

 classification of the order 



Brunner was bom at licrn. :>\vitzerland. June 13, 1823. a 

 member of one of the oldest Swiss families, but early in life 

 changed his home to Vienna, where the remainder of his life 

 was largely spent. It seems a reinarkable coincidence that the 

 two master minds of systematic ( )rthopterology should both 

 be of Swiss birth and of old Swiss families. A member of the 

 Aulic Council and the organizer of the telegraph service of 

 Austria, as well as a bearer of the title of "Hofrath," Brun- 

 ner was a man of distinction aside from the scientific world. 



