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1909. There is one specimen in the Amer. Ent. Soc. collection 

 from Georgia. 



Dr. Skinner mentioned a moth, Gastropacha aincricana 

 Harr., bred inside and brought to the Academy alive, which had 

 laid eggs. He said if they should prove to be fertile the male 

 moth must have emerged at this time of year too. He described 

 the larva and told how hard it was to see, as its markings are 

 ranged in exact duplicate of those on the bark where it rests. 

 This led to a discussion on protective mimicry. 



Mr. Haimbach said he had collected a small moth in pot of 

 lamp-black where he found larvae feeding. 



Adjourned to the annex. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



GEORGE WILLIS KIRKALDY. 



1873-1910. 



The fulfillment of sad duties is the lot of man. To me has 

 come that of making known the death in the flower of his man- 

 hood, of George Willis Kirkaldy, my good friend. 



After a separation of some months from his wife and little 

 one, whom he worshipped, he went to San Francisco, where 

 they were, to spend the Christmas holidays with him. While 

 there, he was induced to submit to a fifth operation on an old 

 fracture of the leg and although it was successful he grew 

 gradually weaker and weaker, and less than a week later, on 

 the 2cl of February, he breathed his last. That acute intellect, 

 that ceaseless, untiring worker was at rest ! His course was 

 run, and he fell ere he grasped the bays that were to crown his 

 achievement. 



George Willis Kirkaldy was born at Clapham, in 1873, and 

 was therefore in his 37th year. From his youth he evinced a 

 great love for natural history, but after finishing his studies in 

 the City of London School, he went into the city, where he 

 remained until 1903, when he accepted a position in Honolulu, 

 with the Hawaiian Department of Forestry and Agriculture. 



