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manifest in his analytic work, much of which, particularly in 

 his "Revision" and in the "Phasmiden," is comparatively crude 

 and unworthy of comparison with certain of his other papers — 

 a lack of appreciation, or a disregard, of the variations of the 

 forms before him, a tendency which sometimes completely nul- 

 lified the value of pages of tables on account of the use of vari- 

 able characters for major division criteria. The other tendency 

 noticed is one which, unfortunately, was not peculiar to him. 

 This is a disregard of the work of other authors whose papers 

 may not be within the four walls of the study. Many of our 

 fellow entomologists on this side of the Atlantic complain, 

 with justice, of the lack of consideration their work has re- 

 ceived from some of the European workers, particularly Con- 

 tinental students. To Americans the completion of reference 

 files of European journals is a necessity, continuous and never 

 ending, so the silent ignoring of their work, often based on 

 more extensive collections and more carefully compiled data 

 than found in Europe, is exasperating, to say the least. The 

 author remembers quite distinctly receiving a card from Brun- 

 ner asking for a certain paper, which we might add had been 

 sent unsolicited some years before, and saying there was in 

 Vienna no set of the journal containing it. However, the 

 journal is now and was at that time in the two best known 

 zoological libraries in Vienna. 



Beloved by all who knew him and respected by those who 

 appreciate the gigantic pioneer work he did in a previously little 

 studied branch of knowledge — and this largely in the intervals 

 of a busy official life, crowned with years over four score and 

 ten, he passed from us. Truly may we say, "We shall never 

 see his like again," for, owing to the enormous growth of the 

 literature and collections, the day has passed when it was pos- 

 sible for one man to cover in a comprehensive fashion the ever 

 increasing field of even a single branch of entomological knowl- 

 edge.* J. A. G. R. 



*For a number of the facts given above we wish to express our 

 indebtedness to a short sketch of Brunner von Wattenwyl published 

 by Dr. Malcolm Burr in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of 

 Variation, volume XII, pages 5 and 6 (1900). 



