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for what he did as a propagandist and popularizer of entomology. For 

 many years editor of ttie Lancaster Fanner^ he constantly scattered 

 through its columns articles upon insects, evincing not only great 

 powers of observation, but also much scientific knowledge and a clear- 

 headed practicality. 



Dr. Felipe Poey is another veteran who has left us. Dr. Poey was a 

 learned naturalist, working in an unexplored country, and his contribu- 

 tions to the various departments of descriptive and biological science 

 have given him a name which is known in all countries. Although 

 more interested in the higher groups, a very large part of our knowledge 

 of the insect fauna of the island of Cuba is due to his untiring efforts as 

 a collector and to his unfailing generosity. Cuba has hitherto not 

 seemed a fertile held for the growth of naturalists, but Dr. Poey has left 

 behind him several i)upils who will continue the work which he has so 

 well begun. 



From the Pacific Rural Press of February 14 we learn to our regret 

 that Mr. Waldemar G. Klee died of consumption in the first week of 

 February, at the age of 38 years. Mr. Kiee was a native of Copenhagen, 

 Denmark, where he received a thorough education in horticultural 

 science, and came to this country at the age of 19 years. He soon settled 

 in California, where Prof. E. W. Hilgard employed him on the University 

 Experiment Grounds at Berkeley, and for the last 15 years of his life his 

 name has been intimately connected with the progress of Californian 

 horticulture. In 1886 he was appointed State inspector of fruit pests, 

 and while in this position he wrote, among other entomological papers, 

 a handsomely illustrated '' Treatise on the insects injurious to fruit and 

 fruit trees in the State of California" (Sacramento, 1888). At the time 

 of his death he held the oflQce of Inspector of Experiment Stations of 

 California. 



