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Arthur E. Gibbs, who had in recent years "made a con- 

 siderable collection of American Rhopalocera and for some 

 time past mainly occupied himself with the study of these in- 

 sects," died March 3, 191 7, aged 58. He was a proprietor of 

 the Herts Advertiser and the St. Albans Thncs (England). 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 191 7). 



Dr. E. Bergroth contributes a brief note on Dr. Bertil 

 Robert Poppius, the Finnish entomologist, who died at 

 Copenhagen, November 27, 1916, aged 40 years. His most 

 important works are Monograph of the holarctic subgenus 

 Cryobiiis (Carabidae) and Monograph of the Ethiopian Cap- 

 sidae (2 vols., 1912-1914). (Ent. Mo. Mag., Jan., 1917). 



Roland Trimen, the distinguished author of South Afri- 

 can Butterflies, died as long ago as July 25, 1916, and his 

 decease should have received mention in an earlier number of 

 the News. He was born at Paddington. London. October 29, 

 1840. He spent the years i860- 1895 in South Africa, first 

 in the civil service, then from 1873 as curator of the South 

 African Museum at Cape Town. His most important scientific 

 work was On some remarkable Mimetic Analogies among 

 African Butterflies (Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxvi, 1869), 

 dealing with the females of Papilio merope (dardanus). He 

 was President of the Entomological Society of London in 

 1897 and 1898, his addresses on IMimicry and on Seasonal 

 \'ariation "being of special interest and value. In 1883 he 

 was elected a Eellow of the Royal Society and received in 

 1910 the high distinction of the Darv.-in medal." (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., Sept., 1916, Entom., Oct., 1916). 



Orson Bennett Johnson, professor emeritus of Zoolog>' 

 in the University of Washington, died March 9, 1917, aged 

 6q, according to a note in Science for April 13 last. We have 

 previovisly mentioned (this volume, page 41) his gift of his 

 entomological collection to his University. A quarter of a 

 century ago we received Odonata from Seattle from him and 

 others also are indebted to him for material. 



