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S. A, Rohwer attended the meetings of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science held at Cincinnati. 
Henry Bird of Rye, N. Y., recently visited the Museum to examine 
the Lepidoptera of the genus Papaipema. 
Certain correspondents have kindly replied to Mr. Greene's request 
for puparia of Sarcophagidae, and he now has 45 species of this family 
represented by puparia. Mr. Greene is planning a paper illustrating the 
puparia and giving the structural characters and a key. The paper is 
progressing rapidly. Additional materiai would be most acceptable at 
this time. 
Dr. M, D. Leonard of New York State visited the Museum to look over 
the collection of Diptera and talk with the men in the Section; also to 
complete arrangements for some cooperative work with Mr. Shannon. 
Dr, S. J. Hunter of Kansas spent a few minutes in the Section of 
Insects talking with Mr. Caudell on certain taxonomic questions in the 
Orthoptera 
Dr. Arthur Gibson ef Canada stopped in the Section to meet some of 
the men and discuss cooperation, and one or two questions regarding 
Lepidoptera, with Mr. Busck, 
A, J, Matchler, of the American Museum, spent three days studying 
the collection of Coleoptera. Mr. Mutchler was especially interested in 
identifying the collection from the Gelapagos Islands. He is working up 
the material recently collected by the Williams Expedition. Several of 
his species represented a long series, and it was necessary for him to 
study the Linell types. . 
. William D, Richardson, an amateur coleopterist of Fredericksburg, 
Va., died at the State Hospital at-Marion Va., October 31, 1923, after a 
long illness, After his return from service in France he donated most of 
his collection of beetles to the National Collection, but retained the 
families Elmidae and Parnidee for a study which his illness made impossible. 
While on a visit to friends at the Museum he told of the material he had 
collected during his military service along the Mexican Border and in 
France and of its bequest to the National Museum by a provision of his will, 
but having no entomological friends in Richmond who could understand his ~ 
interests only seven boxes, probably comprising all of his pinned speci- 
mens, were preserved from the cleaning of his room during his long confine- 
ment at the hospital, J. Bowie Ferneyhough of Richmond has kindly sent 
these boxes to the National Miseum for safe keeping pending the legal 
settlement, but manuscripts and notes were not found. 
The Richardson collection is thiefly valuable for the fine speci- 
— of small beetles collected at Fredericksburg, Va., between 1891 and 
