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OBITUARY NOTES. 



[We have brought together, from various sources, pubHshed during 

 the last year, the following data on entomologists vfho have recentlj' 

 passed away.] 



A brief note in Science for February 2, 191 1 (page 112) 

 announced the death of Juan J. Rodriguez, of Guatemala 

 City, on December 22, 1916. Thanks to Mr. William Schaus, 

 we have received a typewritten copy of an obituary notice in 

 El Diario de Centro- America (Guatemala), for December 22, 

 1916, from which we translate the following: 



Don Juan J. Rodriguez Luna, who was born in 1840 and 

 who consequently died at the advanced age of 76 years, had 

 shown already in his early youth his love for this class of 

 studies [zoology] and his competence in dealing with them. 

 As was the custom in that period, he began his education in 

 the College of the Seminar}^ and has left us interesting notes 

 of the awakening of his scientific inclinations. In the Semi- 

 nary there existed no provision for the natural sciences, but 

 he already observed with attention the life of insects, their 

 metamorphoses and habits, and toward the end of his stay in 

 the college, Father Farias, to stimulate his inclinations, lent 

 him a very elementar}' book from the library. Another 

 .Father, notwithstanding, coimselled him not to devote much 

 time to this occupation because "he who looks much at the 

 earth does not look to heaven." This did not hinder the 

 young lover of nature from continuing his studies, which 

 must have been well advanced in 1864, when the Sociedad 

 Fconomica de Amigos de Guatemala, founding the National 

 Museum in that year, confided to him the zoological section. 



In 1867 he was admitted as an advocate, a profession which 

 he never practiced, and his father, don Jose Mariano Rod- 

 riguez, arranged that he should undertake a voyage to Fu- 

 rope. So the son made his first visit to the Old World in 

 1868. In Paris and especially in Belgium he cultivated the 

 friendship of men of science working in zoology and chiefly 

 in entomology and, with a great fund of new information, 

 returned to Guatemala in 1869. The museum of the Economic 



