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OBITUARY 



433 



to appreciate the value of the entomologist in solving the more difficult 

 or unusual problems. The demonstrator is a valuable aid to progress 

 though it never should, be forgotten that successful demonstration 

 must rest upon a substantial foundation of ascertained facts. 



Obituary 



Mr. Harry M. Russell of the Bureau of Entomology died at the 

 home of his father, W. C. Russell, at Phoenix, Ariz., June 25. He was born 

 in Bridgeport, Conn., March 30, 1882, was graduated from the Bridge- 

 port High School in 1901, and from the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College in 1906 with highest honors. He then entered the service of 

 the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, as entomological assistant and was assigned to work on truck 

 crop insects under Dr. F. H. Chittenden. He pubhshed several papers 

 in this Journal, and in bulletins and circulars of the Bureau, showing 

 the results of his work. He was an active member of this Association 

 and frequently attended its meetings. In 1913 he went to Arizona 

 for his health. In his death his fellow-workers realize that the subject 

 of economic entomology has suffered a distinct loss. A widow and 

 several children survive. 



W. E. B. 



Observation on Drinking of Rhogas in Confinement. An adult female Rhogas 

 ierminalis was put in a few drops of water to dissolve feeding-syrup from her tarsi 

 (an unusual matter, as syrup is not used at the Hagerstown, Maryland station, 

 but honey-water, through the vehicle of a piece of saturated sponge) . The abdomen 

 of the female was not normall}^ rounded out, but as soon as she touched the water 

 she became absolutely still, and it was at once noticed that she was engaged in drink- 

 ing. There was a perceptibly regular pulsation of the water for a period of at least 

 five minutes, during which time no member of the female's body moved. At the 

 end of this period she crawled out of the water with the abdomen properly distended. 



W. E. Pennington, Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, 

 Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



