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THE death of the eminent French entomologist the Abbé J. J. Kieffer occurred on December 30 last. For many years he was on the teaching staff of the College of St. Augustin at Bitche in Lorraine, where he devoted himself largely to entomological research. His earlier work was concerned with the taxonomic study of gall-making Diptera and Hymenoptera, but latterly he turned his attention to the Chironomidae and became the foremost European authority on the family. His most enduring contribution is his “Monographie des Cecidomyides d'Europe et d'Algérie”(1900), which contains a wealth of biological and anatomical information, and is profusely illustrated. His death leaves a gap in the ranks of the few students of the difficult and obscure groups of insects among which he laboured so assiduously.
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Obituaries. Nature 117, 731 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117731a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117731a0