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THE death, on August 20, at Mussoorie, India, of MR. FRANK MILBURN HOWLETT, at the early age of forty-three, is greatly to be regretted. Mr. Howlett represented a type of entomologist comparatively rare in this country, being particularly interested in the physiological aspects of his subject. Educated at Wymondham Grammar School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, he went out to India in 1905, and in 1907 joined the staff of the Pusa Research Institute, where he afterwards became pathological entomologist to the Government of India. Although his published papers are relatively few, they exhibit marked originality of ideas. His studies of the chemotropic responses of various Diptera attracted very wide attention, and subsequent research has demonstrated that they were the forerunners of a line of investigation which has a promising future. Mr. Howlett was also a capable athlete and a clever artist, but his activities suffered severely from ill-health during his Indian service.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 446 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106446b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106446b0