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most neatly and beautifully mounted, suited for the minutest 

 examination, and every family was carefully studied and its 

 representatives accurately determined, or their names verified, 

 by himself. 



Undoubtedly Mr. Blanchard's greatest service for students 

 of North American Coleoptera was performed in his pains- 

 taking study and interpretation of the Le Conte types for 

 many friends, themselves unable to make the trip to Cam- 

 bridge. He was a zealous admirer of Dr. Le Conte, and the 

 Le Conte collection at the Harvard and University Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology he understood perfectly, and he loved 

 it too. He was a constant visitor to Cambridge, and in 191 1 

 Harvard honored him and herself, by enrolling him in its 

 catalogue, as Associate in Entomology of the University Mu- 

 seum. 



He bequeathed his collection to Harvard, and it is indeed 

 most appropriate that this collection of his own is to be plac- 

 ed beside that of Le Conte which he knew and loved so well. 



John D. Sherman, Jr. 



The daily newspapers announce the death of Dr. William 

 Armstrong Buckhout, Professor of Natural History, 1871- 

 81, and of Botany and Horticulture since 1881 in Pennsylvania 

 State College, on December 3, 1912. He was born in Oswego, 

 New York, December 26, 1846, and graduated from the Col- 

 lege in which he subsequently became a professor in 1868. He 

 wrote several articles on economic entomology in the Reports 

 of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station and of 

 the State Board of Agriculture for 1889. 1892 and 1893. and 

 contributed notes on insects to various American journals of 

 earlier years. 



The deaths of W. F. Kirby, in England, and W. G. Wright, 

 in California, are also announced and notices of their work 

 will appear in a later number. 



The News for December, 1912, was mailed December 4, 1912. 



