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Dr. Sharp's greatest service to zoologists, and hence to ento- 

 mologists, was his recordership of the section on insects in the 

 Zoological Record from 1885 and his editorship of the entire 

 annual volumes from 1891. "This work he continued till the 

 year of his death, even completing the reading of the final 

 proofs of records for 1920 during his last illness." 



Mr. \Yalker says : The magnitude of Dr. Sharp's entomological work 

 during his long life may be estimated hy the fact that no fewer than 

 257 entries stand under his name in the Royal Society's Catalogue of 

 Scientific Papers and the Zoological Record to date, besides a multitude 

 of minor articles in onr own and other magazines. 



His chief works on the Coleoptera are A Rez f ision of the 

 UritisJi Species of Hoinalota (1869), on the Staphylinidae of 

 Japan (1874) and of the Amazon Valley (1876); on Cole- 

 optera of New Zealand (1878, 1885) and of the Hawaiian 

 Islands (1878-80, and in the Fauna Haivaiicnsis, 1899, 1908) ; 

 On Aquatic Carnivorous Coleoptera or Dysticidac (1880-82) ; 

 on water-beetles, Staphylinidae, most of the Clavicornia, certain 

 Rhynchophora, Brenthidae and Bruchidae in the Binhgia Ccn- 

 trali-Americana (1885-1911), Catalogue of the British Cole- 

 optera in conjunction with Canon W. W. Fowler (1893), 

 Rhynchophora of Japan (1896), and The Comparative Anat- 

 omy of the Male Genital Tract in Coleoptera (with F. Muir 

 his son-in-law 1912). 



He was born October 15, 1840, at Towcester, Northants, and 

 died August 27, 1922, at Brockenhurst. From about his twelfth 

 to his twenty-fourth year he lived in London with his father, 

 a leather merchant, where 



Herbert Spencer was for some considerable time an inmate of his 

 father's house and there can be no doubt that the keen and logical quality 

 of Dr. Sharp's mind was in large measure due to his early association 

 with the eminent philosopher, who gave him much encouragement and 

 assistance in his first efforts in the study of Natural History, and of 

 whom he was wont to speak with respect and affection to the end of his 

 life. In 1904 [he] wrote an article in the Zoologist entitled The Place 

 of II, '!'>,>! .S'/vmvr in Binlogv, having particular reference to him in 

 connection with the teachings of Charles Darwin. 



Sharp studied medicine for two years in St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, London, then at the University of Edinburgh, where 



