ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VOL. LXII OCTOBER, 1951 Xo. 8 Doctor William Procter (1872-1951) Doctor William Procter, distinguished scientist, died suddenly and unexpectedly in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 19, 1951. Doctor Procter was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 8, 1872, the son of Harley Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Sanford Procter. His grandfather founded the Procter and Gamble Company in 1837. Much of Doctor Procter's boyhood was spent in the Berk-shires of western Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1891, and from Yale University with the degree of Ph.B. in 1894, having specialized in chemistry and business. Between 1895 and 1897 he took an extended trip around the World, visiting Japan, China, India, and many other countries. He was a graduate student in the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1896-1897. For the succeeding twenty years he was engaged in business, chiefly in the field of railroad organiza-tion and securities. Later he became actively associated with, and a director of, the Procter and Gamble Company. In 1917 Doctor Procter gradually relinquished business and began graduate work in zoology at Columbia University, con-tinuing until 1920, but never working toward a higher degree. His interests were chiefly in genetics, embryology and proto-zoology, he being associated with men such as Wilson, Morgan, Calkins, Huettner, Sturtevant, and others of the brilliant group then in the Department of Zoology at Columbia. It was this inspiring experience that influenced Doctor Procter to devote the remainder of his life to work in biology. Ever since he was a boy of about 15, or in the mid-SO's, the Procter family had spent nearly every summer on Mount Desert (237) QCT8 tflH
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