Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 287 Meeting of April gth, 1911, at Newark Turn Hall. Presi-dent Buchholz in the chair ; twelve members present. On the motion of Mr. Keller to hold a field meeting on May 30th, the President appointed Messrs. Keller, Brehme and Er-hard as a committee to select a suitable place for the meeting. The Field Committee selected Springfield, New Jersey, for this meeting. Mr. Keller reported that he had seen the Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) picking the soft Arctia cocoons from sides of houses. A general discussion on Forestry and Collecting in the United States and Germany by Messrs. Keller, Kircher and Buchholz was very interesting. The general belief was that more collecting is done by beating trees in Germany than in the United States. HERMAN H. BREHME, Secretary. OBITUARY DR. HERMAN WILLEM VAN DER WEELE. From a memorial notice (in Dutch) contributed to the latest issue (Volume 54, first Aflevering, April 8, 1911) of the Tijd-sckrift voor Entomologie by Dr. Ed. Everts, we learn some particulars of the life of this young Dutch neuropterist. Van der Weele was born October 8, 1879. His education was ob-tained at the Leyden High School, especially under Prof. A. C. K. Hoffman, and later at the University of Berne, Switzer-land, at which latter, under Prof. W. Studer's direction, he pro-duced his dissertation Morphologic und Entwicklnng der Gon-apophysen der Odonaten and obtained his doctor's degree. He became second conservator of insects at the Leyden Mu-seum of Natural History, and went thence to the Dutch East Indies where he succumbed to cholera in Batavia, Java, August 29, 1910. His bibliography comprises twenty-seven titles of papers in English, French and German, the most extensive among them being two fascicules, on Ascalaphides, Sialides and Rhaphidides, of the Catalogue Systematique et descriptif
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