1940] 
Henry Clinton Fall 
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separate collection. The main series has already been in- 
stalled in what has been the Leconte Room, now the Leconte- 
Fall Room. The collection will be kept as Mr. Fall left it, 
except that (as he wished) the types will be rearranged and, 
if practicable, put in the proper places in the main series, 
and some overflow material will be interpolated in addi- 
tional boxes. The Leconte-Fall Room now contains an un- 
excelled collection of North American Coleoptera. In honor 
of Mr. Fall and in recognition of his work and of his col- 
lection a new department has been established in the Mu- 
seum of Comparative Zoology, to be presided over by a Fall 
Curator of Coleoptera. The present writer has the privi- 
lege of being the first to bear this title. 
The first paper published with the signature “H. C. Fall” 
appeared in Entomological News for September, 1893; the 
last, in the Pan-Pacific Entomologist for October, 1937. A 
complete bibliography is given below. There are 144 titles 
in all. 
Mr. Fall’s contributions to science include not only his 
splendid collection and his careful and extensive published 
work, but the influence which he had to the very last on 
coleopterists throughout the country. He was a friend and 
correspondent of practically every coleopterist from George 
Horn to graduate students of 1939. Frederick Blanchard 
and E. A. Schwarz were his first and closest entomological 
friends. It was a fortunate meeting with Mr. Fall that led 
Dr. Adalbert Fenyes to settle in California and to work on 
North American beetles. Charles Liebeck and John D. 
Sherman, Jr. are surviving friends of long association, and 
there are many others. The Sherman Dytiscidae formed the 
basis of much of Mr. Fall’s work on water beetles, and Mr. 
Sherman has published a brief, intimate sketch of Mr. Fall’s 
life in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society 
for March, 1940 (Vol. 48, pages 33-36). Mr. Liebeck re- 
tired from activity as a coleopterist on August 7, 1934, and, 
with generous appreciation of Mr. Fall’s qualifications, he 
gave to Mr. Fall his large and beautiful collection. But 
perhaps even more important than his friendship with these 
and other well known coleopterists was Mr. Fall’s tireless- 
ness in encouraging and helping younger men, of whom the 
writer is one. His correspondence and identification work 
