. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . , wherein is postulatedthe theory, now shared by many other taxonomists, that theCollembola (springtails), Thysanura, Diplura (bristletails) andProtura (Proturans) should be separated from the Insecta andafforded separate class status. The descriptive accounts of allthe insect orders represented in Africa (thus shorn of theApterygota!) is detailed, informative and lucid, with separateshort descriptions of the features of individual families (somewith keys) and valuable references to further reading, bothAfrican and general. One of the meri
. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . , wherein is postulatedthe theory, now shared by many other taxonomists, that theCollembola (springtails), Thysanura, Diplura (bristletails) andProtura (Proturans) should be separated from the Insecta andafforded separate class status. The descriptive accounts of allthe insect orders represented in Africa (thus shorn of theApterygota!) is detailed, informative and lucid, with separateshort descriptions of the features of individual families (somewith keys) and valuable references to further reading, bothAfrican and general. One of the merits of this new Skaifeis that while primarily an in-depth guide to many of the100,000 species found in the Subsaharan region, it may alsobe used as a general introduction to entomology, and as suchshould be on every serious students shelf. Errors wouldappear to be few, although the adult female glow-worm,illustrated on page 121, is obviously a larva, as indicated byits undifferentiated tarsi. Anthony Wootton. ^-ir«oi-i>»X>QQOoaa<-rT PLATE X. il .Til Bishop Skat Hoffmeyer. 127OBITUARYBishop Skat Hoffmeyer, Denmark By OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG* It was originally intended that Baron Charles de Wormswho was a close friend of the late bishop, should write thisobituary. When he himself died only a few weeks later, theeditor asked me to undertake the task. Dr. Skat Hoffmeyer was born in Copenhagen on 7th-December, 1891, and passed away on 31st August, 1979,almost 88 years old. He spent his working life in Jutland,originally as vicar at Raarup, then as archdeacon at Aarhusbefore becoming bishop there from 1940 to 1961. It is remarkable that a life so full of quite different anddemanding work should leave much time for the study andcollection of butterflies and flowers. However, his ability,energy and interests were such already as a boy that his parentsgave him books on butterflies for his tenth birthday, and atthe age of 15 he caught the first Peribatodes manuelariaHerrich-Schaeffe
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