I. 

 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit for publication the following descrip- 

 tive papers on Myriapoda by the late C. H. Bollman, of Blooinington, 

 Ind. Some of these papers were left by Mr. Bollman apparently 

 ready for the printer. These have been edited by Prof. L. M. Under- 

 wood, of Syracuse University, who has added certain notes and pre- 

 pared an introductory review of the literature of the North American 

 Myriapods. To the manuscript papers have been added all articles 

 upon the Myriapoda previously published by Mr. Bollman, as you have 

 yourself suggested the desirability of presenting in compact form, as a 

 sort of memorial, the work done upon this class by one whose untimely 

 death is so regretted. Mr. O. F. Cook, of Syracuse, N. Y., who has 

 greatly interested himself in the subject of the Myriapods, has aided in 

 getting the published papers together and also in selecting such short 

 papers as were worthy of publication from the mass of manuscripts pur- 

 chased, in connection with Mr. Bollman's collection, for the National 

 Museum. 



It is fitting that the Museum should publish this series of papers, 

 because Mr. Bollman based much of his work upon Museum material 

 and was generous enough to deposit all his types in the Museum, so 

 that, together with the material deposited by Mr. Underwood and the 

 work done by him for the Museum, our collection in this class is one of 

 the most important in the country. 



At the time of his death Charles Harvey Bollman was not yet 21 

 years of age. He was born in Monongahela City, December 24, 1868; 

 was educated at the University of Indiana at Bloomington ; graduated 

 at this institution in the class of 1889; was appointed, immediately after 

 graduation, as an assistant in the Fish Commission, and died at Way 

 Cross, Ga., July 13, 1889. He was an exceptionally bright student in 

 college; President David S. Jordan considered him, as a naturalist, one 

 of the most brilliant and promising he had ever known, and certainly 

 his published papers exhibit the ability and care of a well-trained man 

 It can never cease to be a matter of regret that he did not live to carry 

 out one of his chief ambitions, as expressed in correspondence, to mono- 

 graph the Myriapoda of the United States. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



C. V. Riley, 



Honorary Curator of Insects. 

 Prof. G. Brown Goode, 



Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, 



In charge of National Museum. 



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