Entomology Fund

PRESIDENT HOPKINS announced on January 28 the establishment at Dartmouth College of the Henry Clinton Fall Fund for the promotion of the study of entomology. The fund is a memorial to the late Henry Clinton Fall '84, internationally famous entomologist, from whose estate a capital fund of $5,000 has been received by the College. So that income for entomological research may be available at once, the bequest provides an additional amount for immediate expenditure.

As its first use of the Fall Fund the College will purchase entomological equipment for the Dartmouth College Museum, which plans a survey of insect fauna of the Hanover region to promote knowledge of the economic entomology of the region. The survey will also result in important additions to the 40,000 specimens already possessed in the various entomological collections at Dartmouth.

Doctor Fall, who died last November in his 77th year, was an authority on American beetles. During the research which he carried on while teaching high school and after his retirement he discovered more than 1400 new specimens and collected some 200,000 mounted specimens. Recipient of the honorary Doctorate of Science from Dartmouth in 1929, he was a member of the permanent committee of the International Congress of Entomology at Brussels, and also held membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.