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DR. JAMES S. BAILEY, 



of Albany, N.Y., died at his residence, No. 95 Eagle St., on July 1st, after a protractec 

 illness. He was an enthusiastic student of insects, who devoted most of his attention tc 

 the lepidoptera, of which he possessed a fine collection. He has contributed a numbei 

 of papers to the Entomologist^ among others an illustrated one on the natural history o1 

 Cosstus centerensis, in No. 1., vol. 11, and at the time of his death was engaged in pre 

 paring a paper on the tree- boring species of this genus for the Department of Agriculture, 



PROF. p. C. ZELLER. 



The death of this veteran lepidopterist has occurred, long expected and deeplj 

 regretted. Seven years younger than the century itself, Prof. Zeller was born on the 9ti 

 of April, 1808. Professor in the Prussian Real Schule at Meseritz, he was finally retiree 

 on a Government pension, and has lived since 1870 near Stettin, continuing his entomo 

 logical labours in connection with the Entomological Society of Stettin. Commencing t( 

 write at an early age. Prof. Zeller has grown up with the modern science of lepidop 

 terology. His earliest studies were upon the collections of Frau Lienig and the materia 

 brought by himself from a southern trip, which extended as far as Sicily. Zeller dis 

 covered the curious diurnal Rhodocera Farinosa, besides describing certain Lyccenidce, hvc 

 his principal attention was given to the small moths of the families Fyralidce to Tineidce, tin 

 modern classification of which he may be said to have founded. He first cleared up th( 

 confusion as to the genera of Phycidce, and by using natural characters, chiefly secondary 

 sexual ones, he succeeded in disentangling our minds with regard to the order of natur< 

 in this obscure and neglected field of enquiry. His species and genera are very numerou: 

 and almost always valid. It is a misfortune that his valuable monograph on the Cram 

 bidce was issued so nearly simultaneously with the worthless writings of Francis Walkei 

 on the same subject, so that some of our North American material has been twice named 

 The evidence seems to be that Zeller's paper may have been earlier. As a matter of jus 

 tice it should have priority. In a series of articles, published since retirement from officia 

 duties, Prof. Zeller described a number of moths from North America. Kather more thai 

 the, unfortunately not to be avoided, proportion of synonyms mark the papers, which art 

 otherwise models of what descriptional work ought to be. Still later, Prof. Zeller has 

 published a beautifully illustrated volume on micro-lepidoptera, and has given a classifica 

 tion of Chile. As I remember him in 1867, Prof. Zeller was a white-haired gentlemai 

 of very kind manners and enthusiastic for his favourite science. He was moderately thir 

 and tall, wearing a slight whisker, but otherwise with clean shaven mouth and face. Hij 

 nose was large and well-shapen, his eyes bright and the whole expression of his fac( 

 pleasing. He had high cheek bones, and his countenance was unmistakably German ii 

 its salient features. Lowe, the celebrated dipterist, was then living in Meseritz, and ar 

 entomological excursion which I made with these two celebrities is among the most plea 

 sant of my European reminiscences. Prof. Zeller's home relations were of the happiest 

 and the sympathy of an amiable and considerate wife was his through life. And it waf 

 a life devoted to science and learning. His accomplishments as a linguist and teachei 

 were well known and appreciated in Germany. We know him chiefly as a biologist, th( 

 describer of the exterior structure of lepidoptera. He was fortunate enough to avoit 

 much of the controversial spirit which accompanies descriptive entomology. Althougl 

 he felt deeply the uselessness of the British Museum Lists, and his own studies were 

 impeded thereby, he has, on the whole, little to say in criticism of others. He was nol 

 only charitable, but had schooled all natural irritability. His assistance was freely giver 

 to others, and Mr. Stainton's work on the Tineina acknowledges its value. He was j 

 type of a kindly Cierman pedagogue and naturalist which hardly exists elsewhere. 



A. R. G. in Fapilio. 



CHARLES G. SI EWERS. 



Charles G. Siewers died at his residence, Newport, Ky., Sept. 6th, in the sixty-eight! 

 year of his age. For many years he has been a devoted and enthusiastic student of entomo 



