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The following obituary appeared in The New York Times
on Thursday, February 17.

Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, 87, Dies

     Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, a research entomologist
at the University of Florida and the last living grandson of
Alexander Graham Bell, died last Thursday at his home in
Gainesville, Flordia. He was 87.

     The cause was cancer, the university said.

     Mr. Fairchild, who was known as Sandy, spent almost 30 years
in Central America and South America studying the role of insects
in disease. Since 1970, he had been a research professor of
entomology at the University of Florida and a research associate
at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville.

     He was the author of more than 140 articles in scientific
journals and was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was
named entomologist of the year in 1968 by the Entomological
Society of America.

     Mr. Fairchild is survived by his wife, Elva, and a daughter,
Alice Fairchild, both of Gainesville; a son, David, of Carmel
Valley, Calif., and a grandson.

Nigel Allen      ndallen@io.org