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His last years were full of honors. He was a delegate 

 to the International Zoological Congress at Monaco ; Yale 

 University gave him an honorary D.Sc. ; he was chosen to the 

 limited membership of the National Academy of Sciences, and 

 the Entomological Society of America made him an Honorary 

 Fellow, one of seven out of its membership of 600. 



He was married in 1880 to Annie I. Hathaway, of New 

 Haven, who survives him together with three daughters and 

 a son. 



I first knew him by correspondence in 1890, when on learn- 

 ing that I was beginning to work on Diptera he sent me sepa- 

 rates of his papers. In Januar}-, 1893, I went to the University 

 of Kansas to study, drawn entirely by his presence there. He 

 received me with open arms, and helped me in every way 

 possible until I left in July to take up my work in Idaho. 

 Then I saw him only a time or two in twentv' years, and had 

 few and short letters from him, for he was a notably poor cor- 

 respondent. After coming to Indiana in 1913 I was so near 

 that we were frequently together. My sketch would be en- 

 tirely inadequate without some acknowledgment of my per- 

 sonal obligation. In Kansas he lent me money ; he wanted 

 me to live in his house ; he could not do enough to further 

 my scientific aspirations. More than any other of my teachers, 

 he became my ideal of a scientific man ; and if in later years 

 my ideal took on larger proportions, so he too seemed to 

 expand in his mature powers; and at the close of his life I 

 still feel that a splendid and inspiring example of scientific 

 work and achievement is contained in his career. 



Notes on Cynipidae, with Description of a New 

 Species (Hym.). 



By William Beutexmuller. New York City. 



Biorhiza nigra Fitch. 



Biorhiza nigra Fitch, 5th Rep. Xox. Ins. N. Y. (Trans. X. Y. Agric. 

 Soc, 1858 (1859). 782). 



Acraspis politus Bassett, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. XVII, 1890, 

 p. 85. 



