314 The American Naturalist. [Mareh, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Recent Deaths.—Henry Tispors Srarnron.— Word comes from 
England of the death of this eminent Lepidopterist on December 2d, 
1892, in his 71st year. For the past fifty years he has been one of the 
most active British entomologists. During this period he has been 
president of the Entomological Society of London, secretary and vice- 
president of the Linnean Society, and secretary of the Ray Society. 
One of the founders of the Etomological Monthly Magazine, he con- 
tinued on the editorial staff from its beginning until his death. From 
this magazine we learn that he has published more than twenty-five 
volumes on natural history, besides frequent contributions to entomo- 
logical periodicals. He studied chiefly the Micro-Lepidoptera, and 
was best known as a student of the Tineina. Two of his associates on 
the Monthly Magazine, Messrs J. W. Douglas and R. McLachlan, 
write: “ Naturally diffident and unobstrusive in society, he yet pursued 
the objects that interested him, with ardor and perseverance, and his 
liberality in the cause of the advancement of entomological studies in 
Britain, which was always dear to him, and his unstinted aid in the 
identification of species, are too well known to require eulogy. From 
the first he restricted his researches to Lepidoptera, but he had sym- 
pathy with the students of all orders of insects, and of natural history 
generally. Possessed of an ample fortune, he used his means freely to 
assist any cause or person that he deemed to be deserving . . . In 
1871 he was instrumental in founding the Zoological Record Anoia 
tion, for the purpose of continuing the Zoological Record, which had 
been relinquished by Er. Van Voorst, and largely through his liberal- 
ity this indispensable publication appeared regularly until 1886, when 
it was taken up by the Zoological Society of London.” 
FREDERICK Avueustus Gentu.—The death of Frederick Augustus 
Genth occurred at his residence, No. 3937 Locust street, Philadelphia, 
and ended, at the age of seventy-three, the career of a chemist and 
mineralogist whose reputation was not confined to one hemisphere, but. 
was co-extensive with the world of scientific investigation. Professor 
Genth was born in Waechtersbach, Hesse-Cassel, on May 17, 1820. 
After attending the Gymiiasium, in Hanau, he studied at the University 
of Heidelberg, under Liebig; at Giessen, and finally under Bunsen, at 
