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THE LATE Mr. L. C. H. YOUNG. 



It is with great regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. 

 Lawrence C. H. Young, B.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S., which took place at 

 Henley on Thames on the 8th September, 1907, at the age of 30. 

 Mr. Young was educated at Marlborough College, where he had the 

 advantage of studying under the well known entomologist Mr. E. 

 Meyrick. and first developed an interest in Entomology. From 

 Marlborough he proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, where he took 

 honours in Indian History, and then came out to India in October 

 1901, joining the staff of one of the large mercantile firms in Bombay. 

 He at once gave his valued assistance to the Society, taking in hand 

 the re-arrangement and classification of the Entomological collections, 

 which at that time were in a somewhat neglected state. The amount 

 of steady and patient work that this involved can hardly be appreciated 

 except by those who met him in the museum, where he was to be 

 found working away every evening until it was too dark, or time to 

 catch his train to Andheri, where he lived almost continuously during 

 his time in Bombay throughout all seasons of the year. The work of 

 re-setting the whole of the butterfly collection was alone an undertaking 

 that few would have cared to take in hand. 



Mr. Young was elected a member of the Committee and Honorary 

 Secretary of the Entomological Section in July 1902 and became one 

 of the Joint editors of the Journal from the commencement of 

 Vol. XVII, also acting as Joint Honorary Secretary from May 1907 

 till his departure for home, on account of ill-health, on 29th June the 

 same year. 



With a thorough grounding in, and knowledge of, the structure of 

 insects, Mr. Young largely devoted his interest to the intricacies of 

 their classification, paying particular attention to the advocacy of 

 advanced scientific details as a true basis of arrangement. At the same 

 time he was a keen worker in the field so far as his limited leisure time 

 permitted, having a quick hand and eye and a natural aptitude for 

 detecting essential points of interest in habits and life history. 



Mr. Young had a ready pen, with a considerable gift of expressing 

 his meaning to the point, and his many contributions to the Journal 

 included papers on the Classifi cation of the Lepidoptera Papilionina, 

 the Enemies of Insects, the Distribution of Butterflies in India, What 



