Joseph Charles Bequaert 
Photograph taken in Belgian Congo, 1934 
I first met Joe at the September meeting of the Club in 1923, at 
which he was nominated for membership. His exuberance and his 
extraordinary enthusiasm for nearly every aspect of natural history 
were the most obvious traits of his personality. In 1956 he wrote the 
following statement of his scientific interests: ecology of flowers; 
taxonomy and ecology of Bryophyta; geography and ecology of 
African plants; relations of Arthropoda to disease; taxonomy and 
ethology of Diptera and Hymenoptera, particularly Vespidae; mala- 
cology; medical entomology. He was certainly one of the most dis- 
tinguished and respected entomologists of his generation. 
Frank M. Carpenter, editor 
