ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. ii. SEPTEMBER, 1891. No. ; 



CONTENTS: 



Henry Edwards 129 Skinner Elementary Entomology 137 



\Vickham Through the Final Mts 130 Notes and News 138 



Rowley Notes on Colias eeesonia 133 Entomological Literature 141- 



Hamilton Lachnosterna 135 Doings of Societies 146 



HENRY EDWARDS. 



HENRY EDWARDS, the well-known entomologist and actor, 

 died in New York, June 9, 1891. He had been ill for a couple 

 of months previous, and the immediate cause of death was heart 

 failure, due to dropsy. Mr. Edwards was an Englishman by 

 birth, and first saw the light in Herefordshire, England, in 1830. 

 He studied law in early life, but a fondness for commercial enter- 

 prise led him into a London counting-house, where Walter Mont- 

 gomery and John L. Toole were fellow clerks. Amateur acting 

 engrafted professional endeavor, and in connection with Mont- 

 gomery, Mr. Edwards made his first appearance as "Rudolf," 

 in Byron's Wonder. In 1853 he bade farewell to the desk and 

 sailed for Melbourne. Under Mr. Doubleday's auspices he had 

 already commenced the pursuit of insect hunting, and had formed 

 the nucleus of a collection destined to grow in a manner of which 

 he had never dreamed. Mr. Edwards was well known as an 

 actor, having been with different companies in Australia, Peru, 

 Panama, California, Boston, etc. In 1879 he was engaged by 

 the late Lester Wallack as a member of his stock company, and 



