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ou, Rutherford, September 3 ; Eosphoropteryx thyatiroides, 

 Carlstadt, August 1 1 ; Phaeocyma lunifera, Guttenberg, Octo- 

 ber 4; Packardia elegans, Fort Lee, larvae common on Arbur- 

 num; Schisura eximia, Hasbrook Heights, August 3. 



He also furnished a note relating his experience with several 

 species of Sphingids which had emerged from their pupae in 

 a crippled condition, and after remaining so for a day were 

 sprinkled with water, which brought about their full develop- 

 ment. The experiment was tried repeatedly, and in all, save 

 one or two instances, with perfect results. 



John A. Grossbeck, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



It was with great regret that we learned of the death of Frank Hoyer, 

 for a number of years a member of the Feldman Collecting Social of 

 Philadelphia. 



We regret to announce the death of C. B. Simpson, who has been for 

 nearly three years Entomologist of the Transvaal. He was a graduate 

 of the University of Idaho in 1898 ; studied nearly three years at Cornell 

 after that ; did field work for the Bureau of Entomology in South Idaho 

 two seasons with brilliant results, which induced Dr. Howard to give him 

 his recommendation for South Africa. Over there he was very active 

 and successful, having organized an extensive department in the short 

 period of his service. One of his principal subjects in that field was locust 

 extermination. He died of typhoid fever on January 14th, at the age of 

 thirty-one years, having been married but ten months. He was develop- 

 ing into a man of commanding ability. 



Dr. Rudolph Heiser, of Keokuk, Iowa, died October 27, 1905. He 

 was born in Moehlhausen, Thiiringia, on March 10, 1839, and was sixty- 

 seven years old at the time of his death. He came to this country in the 

 early fifties with his parents, and has made Keokuk his home ever since. 

 In the year 1866 he was united in marriage with Miss Emilie Roos, who, 

 with one daughter, Miss Emma Heiser, and one sister, Mrs. Louis Stracke, 

 of Warsaw, 111., are left to mourn his death. 



He was an enthusiastic naturalist, taking great interest in the branches 

 of ornithology and entomology, of which he possessed a rare and valued 

 collection. He was a skilled taxidermist, and for many years past was 

 curator of the museum of the old Medical College. In his early life he 

 enjoyed the sports of field and wood, and was one of the few remaining 

 members of the old Nimrod Shooting Club, incorporated in 1870. He 

 was a subscriber to the News for many years. 





