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etc., breeding thousands of specimens, the life-history of many of which 

 he discovered, and describing numerous new species and purchasing at 

 various dates the "micros" in the Zeller, Hofmann, Christoph and other 

 collections. 



Commencing as a British Lepidopterist, he was undoubtedly influenced 

 in his early studies in the Tineina by Stainton, who induced him to ex- 

 tend those studies beyond the British fauna. When preparing his North 

 American Tortricidae (published 1879) Lord Walsmgham had much cor- 

 respondence with Professor C. H. Fernald, and being dissatisfied with 

 the Wilkinsonian system was easily persuaded by Fernald to adopt that 

 of Heinemann and described many genera founded on secondary sexual 

 characters. He was liberal minded enough in his 65th year, in association 

 with Mr. August Busck and the writer to repudiate all such genera and 

 they were freely sacrificed in the "Biologia!" Lord Walsingham readily 

 accepted the more exact methods of study and classification which we 

 owe to Mr. E. Meyrick, with a natural reservation as to matters of detail, 

 such as sequence and nomenclature [J. H. Durrant in Ent. Mo. Mag.]. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1887, and 

 President of the Entomological Society of London, 1889-90. 



As indicated abov-e, he collected in California and Oregon. 

 This was in 1871 and 1872. As a result of this expedition, 

 the largest species of dragonfly known in the United States 

 bears the name Anax walsinghami, given to it, in honor of 

 the collector, by Robert M'Lachlan in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 for 1883. 



The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine also records the 

 deaths of WILLIAM E. SHARP (i8s6-May 20, 1919), "one of 

 the best of our British Coleopterists;" Major THOMAS 

 BROUN, Coleopterist and for some time Government Ento- 

 mologist of New Zealand at Auckland, August 24, 1919; 

 BRUCE F. CUMMINGS, on the entomological staff of the Bri- 

 tish Museum, 1912-1917, and who wrote mainly on Ano- 

 plura and Mallophaga, on October 22, 1919; and FREDERICK 

 HERSCHEL WATERHOUSE, coleopterist (Oct. 4, i845-March 

 12, 1919), last surviving son of G. R. Waterhouse, and librar- 

 ian of the Zoological Society of London, 1872-1912. 



EMILY L. MORTON. 



Emily L. Morton passed away at her home, New Windsor, 

 New York, on the evening of January 8th, 1920, after an 



