OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XII, 1910. Ill 



abandoned entomology, and disposed of his magnificent collec- 

 tion to the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg. 



In later years, however, he recovered somewhat his interest 

 in entomology, and was a fairly regular attendant at our 

 Society, of which he was an honorary member, and often took 

 part in the discussions. 



Although his collection was largely used by others in de- 

 scriptive work, he himself published only a few papers, as 

 follows : 



Report upon the Collections of Coleoptera made in Portions of 

 Nevada, etc. Wheeler's Kept. Geog. Geol. Explorations, vol. v, Zool- 

 ogy, PP- Nil-si'", i pi., i*~~i. 



A New Species of Amphotis. Entom. Amer., in, pp. 77-78, 18S7. 

 A List of the Beetles of the District of Columbia. Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xxv, No. li'7o, pp. l-:>7, 1!MH'. 



Besides these there are various remarks made at the meet- 

 iags of our Society, some of which are published in our Pro- 

 ceedings. 



OBITUARY NOTICE.* 



It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mr. G. 

 W. Kirkaldy in San Francisco, February 2, 1910. The de- 

 ceased was in his thirty-seventh year, and his unexpected 

 death was the result of an unfortunate riding accident involv- 

 ing a broken leg, some five years ago. Repeated operations 

 were unsuccessful, and, after final operation, gangrene devel- 

 oped, proving fatal. 



Mr. Kirkaldy "was born in London of Scotch parentage, and 

 while still a boy he exhibited a keen love for natural history. 

 He was educated at the City of London School, and contrary 

 to his taste he entered a shipping firm. During this most un- 

 congenial period he assiduously occupied his spare time with 

 entomology, finally concentrating his attention upon aquatic 

 Hemiptera, publishing his first paper, "A Revision of theNo- 

 tonectidaV' in 18')(>. Two years later he commenced the 

 working out of the Hetnipterous portion of the zoological ma- 



*Contributed by F. W. Terry. 



