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iptera on sunflower within the city of Philadelphia (p. 67, 

 March, 1897). Prof. John B. Smith acknowledged the as- 

 sistance which he derived from Seiss in the preparation of 

 his Catalogues of the Insects of New Jersey (1900, p. 729; 

 1910, p. 846). Of late years, Mr. Seiss had dropped out of 

 entomological activities altogether. His will bequeathed his 

 book-box collection of insects to the Central High School 

 of Philadelphia, and his reptiles, batrachia and fishes to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Many of us recall Mr. Seiss's generosity in presenting to 

 us desirable specimens of almost all orders of insects, which 

 he obtained in his active collecting days, and we regret that 

 we have seen so little of him in recent years in haunts ento- 

 mological. 



The death of Julius Max Hagedorn, M.D., at Hamburg, 

 on December 15, 1914, is announced in the Deutsche Bnto- 

 mologische Zeitschrift for 1915, heft II, page 213. He was 

 born November 28, 1852, in Ratstal, near Gerdauen, East Prus- 

 sia. He studied in the University of Konigsberg, and settled 

 in Hamburg, first as a general practitioner, later as a neck, ear 

 and nose specialist. He contributed the sections on the Ipidae 

 for the Coleopterorum Catalogus and the Genera Insectorum. 

 His collection was presented to the Natural History Museum 

 in Hamburg. 



The daily papers announced the death on August 20, in Ha- 

 vana, Cuba, of Carlos Juan Finlay, promulgator of the yel- 

 low-fever mosquito fever in 1881. He was born in Puerto 

 Principe, Cuba, December 3, 1833, and received the degree of 

 M.D. from JeflFerson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1855 

 and from Havana in 1857. He was the delegate from Cuba 

 to the International Sanitary Conference in Washington in 

 1881, and during 1902-8 was chief sanitary officer of that 

 country. In 1903 he was Cuban delegate to the Sanitary Con- 

 gress in Washington. Since January, 1909, he was the honor- 

 ary president of the Junta National de Sanidad Beneficencia. 



