Vol. LIII. LONDON. FEBRUARY, 1921. No. 2 



RETIREMENT OF DR. E. M. WALKER AS EDITOR. 



Owing largely to increased duties, Dr. Walker has found it necessary to 

 tender his resignation as Editor of the Canadian Entomologist. When his 

 esteemed predecessor, the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, found it necessary to re- 

 linquish the editorial duties, the Council of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario was fortunate in persuading Dr. Walker to take up this w^ork. Dr. 

 Walker has served the Society and entomologists generally for a period of 

 eleven years in a most faithful and painstaking manner, and as President of 

 the Society I feel that I am voicing the opinion of all our members and sub- 

 scribers in recording here our warm appreciation of his valued services during 

 such a long period. Dr. Walker has enriched to a marked degree the literature 

 relating to Canadian insects, and in yiew of his personality and his attainments 

 he is held in high regard, not only by entomologists resident in Canada, but 

 by those of other countries as well. 



The duties of an editor are not always along paths strewn with roses, and 

 for this and other reasons one sometimes wonders why any person is persuaded 

 to edit a scientific journal. The true reason, of course, is a love for the work 

 for its own value and the effort to assist in the general advancement of the 

 science. Dr. Walker has certainly conducted his duties in a most pleasing and 

 acceptable manner. We wish him further success in the important work he 

 is doing at the University of Toronto. 



As mentioned in the January number, Dr. J. H. McDunnough, Chief of 

 the Division of Systematic Entomology, Entomological Branch, Department 

 of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., has been appointed Editor in place of Dr. 

 Walker. Dr. McDunnough has a wide reputation as an entomologist, and 

 the Society is fortunate in securing his services. 



Arthur Gibson. 



POPULAR AND PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Ijfk-History of a Hobhy Horse. 



by francis j. a. morris, 



Petecbo rough, Ont. 



Part. II. — Boy and Man — Svpling Growth. 



(Continued from page 5, Vol. LIII.) 

  Slyboots and I had already suffered a partial separation ; he attended a 

 school at Gypsey Hill, while I was entered at Dulwich College. Among his 

 teachers was Theodore Wood who gave lessons in Entomology, and it was at 

 this time that we acquired his kinsman's hooks on British Moths and on Beetles, 

 and thus laid the foundations of a little library including Coleman's Butter- 

 flies, Atkinson's Birds' Eggs and Nests, and a work illustrating Spiders, Dragon- 

 flies, Wasps and other Insects, which has long vanished, even to its author's 



name. 



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