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BY the death of Rowland Edwards Turner on November 29, 1945, at Mossel Bay, Cape Province, at the age of eighty-two, the British Museum (Natural History) has lost a friend who worked voluntarily for the Department of Entomology for more than thirty years. During the First World War, he laboured in the Hymenoptera Room to build up the first arranged national general collections of Braconidæ and of the sphecoid and vespoid families then collectively known as 'Fossorial Hymenoptera'. He soon became a recognized authority on the Thynnidæ and contributed the part of Wytsman's “Genera Insectorum” devoted to that family.
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BENSON, R. Mr. R. E. Turner. Nature 157, 221 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157221a0
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