December, ’18] 
OBITUARY 
485 
dormant and slowly progressed, his researches on disease-bearing 
insects, and especially on mosquitoes, made him one of the foremost 
workers in this field. He was an artist of very unusual ability, as is 
especially shown by the wonderful illustrations of mosquito larvse 
reproduced in the Carnegie Institution Monograph of the Mosquitoes 
of North and Central America and the West Indies and which, in 
fact, reached the summit of beauty and perfection. His training in 
art was received as a young man in Dresden. L. 0. H. 
EVERETT JAY VOSLER 
Everett J. Vosler, foreign collector for the Insectary Division of 
the California State Commission of Horticulture, died on November 
7th, at Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, Cal., of pneumonia following 
influenza. 
Mr. Vosler was born on July 13,.1890, at Fort Collins, Colo. After 
attending high school there he entered the Colorado Agricultural 
College from which he was graduated in 1911. He specialized in 
horticulture and entomology and made an enviable record as a student, 
although he carried on a great deal of outside work while pursuing his 
studies. He was also prominent in athletics, winning the college 
championship in tennis and being a member of the baseball team. 
In 1911, after finishing his college course, he entered the service of 
the United States Department of Agriculture as an expert in the Bureau 
of Entomology, section of cereal and forage insect investigations. He 
was assigned to work on the alfalfa weevil problem at Salt Lake City, 
Utah. Here he remained until the spring of 1913 when he accepted a 
position as assistant superintendent of the California State Insectary. 
In September, 1914, he was promoted to the secretaryship of the Com¬ 
mission which included the editorship of the Monthly Bulletin. In 
January, 1917, he was, on account of his success in handling living 
insects, made foreign collector of the Insectary Division and sent to 
Australia to collect beneficial insects. He brought back to this coun¬ 
try a number of promising species of parasites and predators, particu¬ 
larly on mealybugs and black scale. 
Upon his return he made every exertion to get his work in such shape 
that he could enlist in the army, waiving all claims to exemption, which 
was offered him. He joined the 25th Artillery at Fort Rosecrans, only 
a few days after which he was stricken with the malady from which 
he never recorered. 
Mr. Vosler was well informed in horticulture as well as entomology, 
and was an unusually successful grower of chrysanthemums. While 
he was not a voluminous writer, his great energy and thoroughness 
enabled him to accomplish a great deal of work on the life-histories of 
