OBITUARY 
Argyle B. Proper, an associate member of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists, died at his home in 
Wakefield, Mass., on December 16, 1933, after being ill 
about a week with pneumonia. Mr. Proper was born in 
Sunapee, N. H., on March 4, 1905. He received a B. S. de- 
gree from the University of New Hampshire in 1926 and a 
M. S. degree from the same institution the following year, 
having majored in entomology. On July 1, 1927, he was 
appointed a Junior Entomologist in the U. S. Bureau of En- 
tomology for work at the Bureau’s laboratory at Melrose 
Highlands, Mass., with which station he was connected up 
to the time of his death. 
Although Mr. Proper had published but one entomolog- 
ical article, another manuscript had been accepted for pub- 
lication, and he was to have presented a paper at the Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1933, meeting of the Entomological Society of 
America. At the time of his death he was preparing two 
other manuscripts. These and the papers he had completed 
had to do directly or indirectly with forest and shade tree 
insects. Collecting insects in the White Mountains inter- 
ested him and he spent much of his vacation time on hiking 
trips in that region. 
Mr. Proper was a member of the Cambridge Entomolog- 
ical Club, at the meetings of which he was a regular at- 
tendant. 
T. H. Jones. 
