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Vol. 6, nos. 4-5
PERSONALIA
Ian F. B. COMMON, until recently Technical Secretary of the Division of Entomology, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canberra, Australia, has returned to full-time research as a Senior Research Officer in the Division. He is working on the taxonomy of Tortricidae and the biology, including adult behavior and migration, of Australian Noctuidae.
Peter F. Bellinger, Associate Editor of The Lepidopterists' News, finished his graduate studies at Yale University in June and has accepted an appointment at the University College in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. BELLINGER expects to take up certain work with Jamaican Lepidoptera and to extend his studies of Collembola systematics and biology to the Jamaican fauna. He and Dr. G. W. Rawson returned in August after spending several weeks doing entomological field work in northern Alaska for Yale University. The resultant collections will be placed in Yale's Peabody Museum.
Prof. ALEXANDER B. KLOTS also spent much of the summer in field work in the Arctic of Canada, as did PAUL R. EHRLICH. Mr. EHRLICH was on Southhampton Island in northern Hudson Bay. Prof. KLOTS was apparently farther to the south and west.
S. G. KiRIAKOFF, of the University of Ghent, Belgium, is now working on the Ctenuchidae and Thyretidae of the Belgian Congo Museum, Tervuren, Belgium, with a monograph of these families in prospect. M. KiRIAKOFF is now a member of the board of the Societe Entomologique de Belgique and has recently been made a Foreign Member of the Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging.
It is with sincere personal regret that I must report the recent passing of two editors of lepidopterological periodicals.
On 26 April 1952 Dr. ROBERT LOELIGER-died at the age of sixty-six at Zurich, Switzerland. He was the leader of the Groupe d' Observation des Migrations de Papillons and he issued regular circulars reporting to the hundreds of "collaborateurs" the results of their migration observations. Readers of the News will recall his article describing the work of the group (Lep. News, vol. 4:pp. 61-62; 1951). Shortly before his passing he had to be hospitalized for a serious operation. On 3 April he wrote the Groupe dy Observation: "Je m'excuse de vous adresser aujourd'hui un message d'ordre personnel. Devant subir immediatement une intervention chirurgicale, qui va m'interdire toute activite pendant assez longtemps.-.J'espere viviment que tout cela passera plus vite qu'on ne le prevoit actuellement. Comme je suis seul a liquider toute la correspondence, il y aura cependant un trouble sensible et inevitable dans notre organisation. Je vous demande done comprehension et patience." Unhappily, "all this passed" all too quickly. No word has been received concerning the continuance of the Groupe.
Mrs. Evelyn Gilstrap Williams was killed around New Year's Day in an automobile accident near Beatty, Nevada, while returning from Arizona to her home in North San Juan, California. Mrs. WILLIAMS established the Howell Mountain Butterfly Club (later the Moth and Butterfly Club) about seven years ago and issued a mimeographed periodical to the members. It appeared regularly each month for the six years of her editorship. She carefully keyed its content to the interests of beginners and very young lepidopterists. Another member of The Lepidopterists' Society has undertaken to continue the periodical, Notes on Moths and Butterflies. Dues for 1952 are $1.50 and will be accepted by the new editor:
Mr. James M. Unseld, Jr., Gravel Switch, Kentucky, U. S. A.
C. L. Remington