sixty years we remained close friends, as well as colleagues in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Philip was very active in the Club. He was secretary in 1931, 
vice-president in 1933 and 1940, and president in 1934, 1941, and 
1946, and a member of the editorial board of Psyche for thirty years. 
His first talk at a Club meeting, in March, 1927, was an account of 
insect collecting at the Harvard Tropical Laboratory in Soledad, 
Cuba. At many other meetings over the years we enjoyed hearing 
about his research and his field trips in Australia, New Guinea, and 
Colombia, as well as on various Caribbean islands. 
He was born in Philadelphia in 1904. After attending Exeter 
Academy in New Hampshire, he entered Harvard University, from 
which he received his A.B. degree in 1926 and his Ph.D. in 1931. The 
following year he was appointed Assistant Curator of Insects in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1939 he became the H.C. Fall 
Curator of Coleoptera, and in 1952 he assumed the position of 
Curator of Insects, which he held until his appointment as Alex- 
ander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. He retired in 1971. 
Although Philip was primarily an entomologist and chiefly con- 
cerned with Coleoptera, he had very broad interests in all aspects of 
natural history. His knowledge of plants and of all vertebrate 
groups was extraordinary. With such interests he was inevitably led 
into studies on evolutionary theory and especially zoogeography, on 
which he published several outstanding books and numerous tech- 
nical papers. 
Frank M. Carpenter, editor 
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