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OBITUARY NOTICES. 



F. HANNYNGTON, I.C.S. 



Frank Haunyngton was the youngest son of the late Mr. John Child 

 Hannyngton, a Madras Civilian, who for a long time was Judge of Salem 

 and spent the last 15 years of his service as Resident in Travancore. He 

 was well known as " Curly" to the oarsmen of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 where he became Captain of the boats. From Dublin he went to Wren's 

 to prepare for the I. C. S. examination, which he passed in 1897, returning 

 subsequently to Trinity College for his year's probation. At Wren's and in 

 later life he was known as the "Bishop ". Like many Irishmen he was a 

 great lepper and one of his accomplishments was to kick a top hat held at 

 arm's length over the head. 



Hannyngton started his service in India on January 30th, 1899, as Asst. 

 Collector and Magistrate, South Arcot. During the early part of his career 

 he served at Tinnevelly, Malabar, Madras and Ootacamund putting 

 in some time as Private Secretary to H. E. the Governor. In 1906 he went 

 into the Postal Department and was successively Postmaster-General of 

 the Punjab, the United Provinces and Bengal. In 191i^ he reverted to the 

 Madras Government being put on special duty in Madras and in the same 

 year he was appointed Commissioner of Coorg which post he held up till the 

 end of 1918 when he was transferred to Bellary. In Marchhe went on leave 

 and on his way home died in Bombay early in April 1919. 



Hannyngton was always deeply interested m Natural History and in 

 1897, when at Naini Tal, took up butterfly collecting, to which pursuit he 

 devoted most of his spare time. He made a very fine collection of the 

 butterflies of Kumaun regarding which he published a paper in the Journal 

 (XX. p. 131 & 871) : in this he described a new Zephyrus under the name of 

 triloka, which afterwards proved to be a form of Zephyrus syla. Later he 

 published notes on the life history of Vanessa indica and caschmirensis and 

 of Papilio ravana, also notes on the distribution of .Lethe kansa and Euthalia 

 patala. While P. M. G. of Bengal, he sent collectors up the Chumbi valley 

 and secured a new Pavnassius, which Mr. Avinoff has named hannyngtoni 

 (T. E. S. 1915, p. 351). In Coorg he again made a most complete collec- 

 tion of the local butterflies and published a note on them in the Journal 

 (XXIV. p. 578). Amongst the butterflies he captured in Coorg were a most 

 interesting series of Mycalesis, which have not yet been worked out. 



Hannyngton's death was a blow to all his friends ; he was " one of the 

 very best." He joined the Society in 1908 and became a member of the 

 Committee in 1913. He had great hopes of succeeding to his father's job 

 of Resident in Travancore and working out the butterflies in that province, 

 which are not as well known as they should be. 



He married in 1905, Maisie, daughter of Col. Forbes. 



E. V. ELLIS, I.F.S. 



Amongst the numerous young men that have fallen during the war is 

 E. V. Ellis of the Burmali Forests. He was an ardent entomologist and 

 would have made a great name had he lived. He started collecting about 

 1912 and had done tremendous execution amongst the butterflies of 

 Burmah. In Vol. XXV, p. 104 of the Journal, he wrote a very comprehen- 

 sive note regarding the butterflies of the Tharrawaddy and Pegu Yoma, 

 while in Vol. XXIII, p. 585, he described a new Penthema under the name 

 yoma. He had made several trips into the Shan States and Maymyo, etc., 

 and had added the very interesting Mandarinia veyalis to the Burmese 

 butterfly list. He had also visited the little known Coco Islands, North of the 

 Andanians, finding the fauna, etc., in all respects Andamanese. Butterfly 

 collectors of the ElHs type are very rare and his loss is a very serious one. 

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