142 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



As an entomologist, Mr. Edwards was world-known, and was con- 

 sidered one of the greatest authorities of the science, to which he was 

 attached ever since his boyhood days. He was chiefly known by his 

 excellent papers on the Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, which contain the 

 descriptions of many new and interesting species from that region. He 

 was also known by his articles on North American ^'Egeriadse, of which 

 family he described nearly all our American species. Besides these 

 papers he has also written many other articles on descriptions of new 

 species and transformations of Lepidoptera. He also edited three 

 volumes of the journal " Papilio." The last large work he pubHshed was 

 his " Bibliographical Catalogue of the Described Transformations of 

 North American Lepidoptera," which is now in the hands of all our 

 working entomologists. Mr. Edwards spent much money for the increase 

 of his collection of insects, and devoted all his leisure time to his favourite 

 study. His travels afforded him many rare opportunities for collecting 

 material for his collection and writings. The collection consists of about 

 300,000 specimens of insects of all the orders from all parts of the globe. 

 It contains the types of all the species he described, about four hundred 

 and fifty, except a few which are in other collections. It also contains a 

 number of Grote's types of Noctuidse and Pyralidae, and many of Fish's 

 types of Pterophoridse, and types of other writers. It contains also the 

 unique pair of Oniticelliis califor?iicus, and many other uniques, oddities 

 and rareties of considerable value. The collection is one of the largest 

 private collections in the world. His library consists of about five 

 hundred volumes of entomological works, and about double the number 

 of pamphlets, and about two thousand volumes on travels and other 

 topics. (I am not sure about these figures.) 



Mr. Edwards belonged to many scientific and other societies. He 

 was for some time vice-president of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 life-member Brooklyn Entomological Society, member of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, Players' Club (New York), Bohemian Club (San Fran- 

 cisco), corresponding member Boston Society Natural History, San 

 Francisco Microscopical Society, San Diego Natural History Society, 

 Belgium Natural History Society, etc. 



He leaves a widow who deeply mourns his loss, and we would here 

 add our condolence and sympathy and heart-felt regret to her irreparable 

 bereavement. 



New York, June 15th, 1891. Wm. Beutenmuller. 



