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Andreas Vassilievitch Martynov 
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in the latter paper paralleled those just previously arrived 
at by Lameere (1922). 
It was by the researches on fossil insects, however, that 
Dr. Martynov made his greatest contributions to entomology. 
The forty papers which he published on paleoentomology 
contain very nearly a thousand pages. His early work on 
fossil insects (1925-1927) dealt with a very remarkable 
series of Jurassic fossils from Turkestan. In 1928, however, 
before he had completed his studies on these, he became in- 
terested in Permian insects and devoted most of the next 
ten years to them. When he began these investigations only 
thirteen species were known from the Permian of Russia; 
at the present time, almost entirely as a result of Dr. 
Martynov’s studies and field work, the number of such 
species has exceeded three hundred. Their significance is 
apparent when we consider that they are almost the only 
Permian insects known, apart from those described from 
Kansas and Australia. The Russian Permian fauna thus 
fills in what would otherwise be a very disconcerting gap in 
our record of the Permian insects. 
Although I have had a regular correspondence with Dr. 
Martynov for the past twelve years, since he started work 
on fossil insects, I did not have the opportunity to meet him, 
and I am consequently unable to add to this account any in- 
timately personal details of his life. Mrs. Martynov kindly 
sent me the accompanying picture, which was made in 
1929, while Dr. Martynov was at the Zoological Museum in 
Leningrad. 
F. M. Carpenter. 
