Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 
OBITUARY. 
JAMES H. B. BLANp. 
(Portrait, Plate V.) 
James H. B. Bland died in Philadelphia, November 12, 1911, 
in his seventy-ninth year. He was born in North Carolina but, 
removing to Philadelphia, became one of the organization 
members of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, on 
February 22, 1859. He took an active interest in the Society, 
serving as Vice-President for two years, 1861-1862, as Presi- 
dent for three years, 1863-1865, and was seldom absent from 
the meetings during the first decade of the Society’s existence. 
His entomological activities were largely aided by Dr. Thomas 
B. Wilson, that great friend and patron of science in the fifties 
and early sixties, whose relations to this Society have been 
recently told in Mr. E. T. Cresson’s History of the American 
Entomological Society. 
Bland published seven papers on Coleoptera, all in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Vols. 
i-iv. 
A reference to Bland’s collecting during these years was 
recently made in this journal (ENromoLocicaL News, Octo- 
ber, 1911, p. 354) by Dr. Skinner. 
For the last forty years Bland’s entomological interests were 
more spasmodic, although he was an organization member of 
the Feldman Collecting Social, in December, 1887, and first 
President. Part of an anniversary address which he delivered 
to the Social, December 26, 1889, and his portrait were pub- 
lished in a booklet, issued in 1907, in commemoration of the 
twentieth anniversary of the Social, and to the Social we are 
indebted for the privilege of reproducing the portrait here. 
F. W. Terry.—Again it is my sad task to advise you of the 
untimely cutting off of another Entomologist. Mr. F. W. 
Terry, of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experiment Station, 
of Honolulu, died in New York, on November 8, 1911, and 
his body was sent to England by an aunt, Mrs. M. L. Edmond- 
son. He arrived in New York, on October 19th, on his way 
from his English home to Honolulu, after a vacation taken 
for the restoration of his health, undermined by a long res- 
idence in the tropics. He was quite ill on the steamer com- 
