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Psyche 
[March 
ANDREAS VASSILIEVITCH MARTYNOV 
Dr. A. V. Martynov, the distinguished Russian entomol- 
ogist, died from cancer on the twenty-ninth of last January. 
Born at Riazan, Russia, August 9, 1879, he graduated from 
Moscow University in 1902 and continued there with his 
graduate studies. In 1908 he was appointed to the faculty 
of the University of Warsaw, and in 1915 moved with the 
University to Rostoff. Six years later he was placed at the 
head of the department of Neuroptera and Trichoptera at 
the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences, in 
Leningrad. During this period he became interested in fossil 
insects and in 1936 was appointed Senior Specialist in the 
Department of Insecta, at the Palaeontological Institute of 
the Academy, in Moscow, a position which he held up to the 
time of his death. 
Although Dr. Martynov was primarily an entomologist, 
he was also interested in Crustacea (Gammaridae) , on which 
he published fifteen taxonomic papers. In addition to com- 
piling four text-books on insects, Dr. Martynov's entomo- 
logical researches were concerned with the taxonomy of the 
Trichoptera, general morphology, and paleoentomology. His 
publications on Trichoptera were almost exclusively confined 
to the Asiatic fauna, and he greatly extended our knowledge 
of the caddis-flies of that continent. His Trichopterous 
papers, totaling twenty-five, include approximately 1500 
pages. 
The studies on insect morphology dealt mainly with the 
wings and their venation. Of the numerous papers which he 
published on these structures, two are especially important 
— Uber zwei Grundtypen der Fliigel bei den Insekten und 
ihre Evolution (1925) and The Interpretation of the Wing 
Venation and Tracheation of the Odonata and Agnatha 
(1924) b The conclusions which he independently reached 
1 Because of the great importance of this paper, which was printed in 
Russian, an English translation of it was published by the writer in 
Psyche, vol. 37, pp. 245-280. 
