72 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Entomologists will learn with deep regret that Mr. Henry G. Hub- 

 bard died in January last. His papers, such as " The Life History of 

 Xenos," " The Ambrosia Beetles of the United States," etc., will long 

 be remembered, so remarkable are they for their scientific accuracy of 

 observation and their extremely interesting character. The following 

 notice is taken from the Detroit Journal : 



"Born May 6, 1850, he developed from boyhood a remarkable 

 interest in natural history, and even at an early age showed that fineness 

 and delicacy of observation that distinguished the scientific work of his 

 maturer years. 



"After graduating at Harvard, in 1873, he remained in Cambridge 

 as a graduate student in his favourite scientific branches, especially 

 enjoying the friendship and encouragement of Louis Agassiz and Asa 

 Gray. His real life-work began in Florida in 1879, where he soon 

 achieved a wide reputation, both as a practical horticulturist and as a 

 scientific investigator in the economics of orange culture. In fact, his 

 discoveries and inventions can be said to have revolutionized this branch 

 of horticulture. He was in government employ many years of his life as 

 an expert in biology and applied entomology. As a botanist he carried 

 on in his beautiful estate in Cresent City, Fla., an experimental station 

 for the acclimation of West Indian and other tropical plants. Singularly 

 gifted in that indefinable quality which we call magnetism, he could 

 interest the most indifferent by accounts of his work and discoveries, or if 

 the talk was in a lighter vein, his uniform gaiety and originality lent a 

 charm to his most careless utterances. 



" As a contributor to the advancement of science, his forte lay in a 

 field peculiarly his own — a field where keenness and delicacy of observa- 

 tion were all-important. His papers read before scientific clubs and 

 associations were models of fine scientific treatment and also unusually 

 interesting to the general public. 



" Lovely in character and a true idealist as man of science or man 



of affairs, he lived a life equally noble and unselfish. 



" ' tie scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of earth, 

 E'en as he trod that day to (lod, so walked he from his birth, 

 In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean niinh.' 



"T. H. P." 



Mailed March 6th, 1899. 



