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Number 177 | January, 1929 
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HARRISON G. DYAR 
Dr. H. G. Dyar died January 21 at Garfield Hospital. He fell 
at his desk two days previously as the result of a stroke of some 
kind. Doctor Dyar was born in New York City on February 14, 1866; 
was educated at the Roxbury Latin School, at the Massachusetts In- 
Stitute of Technology, and at Columbia University. His master's 
and his doctor's degrees were from Columbia. He studied at Woods 
Holé in the summer of 1895. He worked at first with the Lepidop- 
tera, and published an important paper on the classification of 
Lepidopterous larvae in 1894. He came to Washington in 1897 and 
was appointed custodian of the collection of Lepidoptera in the 
} U. S. National Museum. He succeeded the late Dr. W. H. Ashmead as 
| Assistant Curator of the Division of Insects of the Museum. After-— 
wards he became connected with the Bureau of Entomology, but in his 
later years he workea at the U. S. National Museum as a free lance, 
devoting most of his attention to mosquitoes. His standing as a 
culicidologist was of the very highest, and he was also among the 
foremost lepidopterists. His death is a great loss to Washington 
entomological circles.-—-L. 0. H. 
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