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ing over, and on his arrival at his hotel his weakness was of so 
serious a nature that his aunt put him in charge of a physician 
and a nurse, but a few days later the alarming nature of his 
case made his removal to a hospital necessary. He was there- 
fore taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was attacked by 
pleuro-pneumonia, and in his enfeebled condition his heart 
failed rapidly. All efforts to strengthen it were unavailing, 
and he passed away far from his native land. 
Owing to my slight acquaintance with Mr. Terry, I am un- 
able to furnish any biographical data.—J. R. p—E La Torre 
BUENO. 
GrorcE HENry VERRALL, eminent British Dipterist, died 
September 16, 1911. He was born February 7, 1848, was a 
member of the “well known firm of race-course managers and 
bankers, Messrs. Pratt & Co., and was concerned as auctioneer 
with the sale of many famous race horses,” and member of 
Parliament for East Cambridgeshire in 1910. He served as 
President of the Entomological Society of London in 1899. He 
had planned a series of volumes on the British Flies, but lived 
to complete only two of them, Vol. VIII. Syrphidae, etc. 
(1901), and Vol V. Stratiomyidae, etc. (1909). Notices of 
his life are given in the English entomological journals, por- 
traits accompanying those in the Entomologist and The En- 
tomologist's Monthly Magazine for November. 
ALBERT Harrison, whose death on August 28, 1911, is also 
announced by our English contemporaries, was known for his 
breeding experiments on Lepidoptera. He was born in 1860. 
Jutes Bourceots, the chief authority on Cantharidae, died 
in Markirch, Alsace, on July 18, 1911, aged 65 years. On Feb 
ruary 22nd last he had been elected an honorary member of 
the Entomological Society of France. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL News for December, 1911, was mailed November 
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