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Vol. XXXVI. LONDON, JANUARY, 1904. No. 1 



THE REV. GEORGE WILLIAM TAYLOR, F.R.S.C, F.E.S.,F.Z.S. 



The readers of the Canadian Entomologist will be pleased, we feci 

 sure, to see the good portrait given herewith of the Rev. G. W. Taylor, 

 who, during the last twenty years, has done such excellent work in almost 

 all lines of Natural History in British Columbia. Born in 1854, in Derby, 

 England, where he received his education, Mr, Taylor, after leaving 

 school, studied mining engineering, but in 1882 came out to Canada and 

 went at once to British Cplumbia, where he had relatives. Although 

 engaged for a short time in farming, he began almost immediately to study 

 for the ministry, and in 1884 was ordained by the Bishop of Columbia. 

 Since that time, with the exception of two years, from September, 1888, to 

 August, 1890, which he spent in Ottawa as rector of the joint parishes of 

 St. Barnabas and Holy Trinity, he has been in charge of parishes in 

 British Columbia, and at the present time is rector of the Church of 

 England at Wellington, B. C. From boyhood Mr. Taylor has been keenly 

 interested in Natural Science, and from his enthusiasm and industry has 

 accomplished much, not only in doing original work of importance in 

 several lines of Zoology and Palaeontology, but in constantly encouraging 

 and assisting others with whom he came in contact, to take up and enjoy 

 with him his favourite studies. 



Mr. Taylor has for many years been a Fellow of the Entomological 

 and Zoological Societies of London, England, and in 1884 was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his ennnent 

 services to science, particularly in connection with his investigations in 

 Canadian Conchology and Entomology. In 1887 he was appointed 

 Honorary Provincial Entomologist of the British Columbian Department 

 of Agriculture, and sent out a cirtular letter to farmers, drawing their 

 attention to the losses caused by insects and asking their co-operation. 

 Owing to his removal to eastern Canada in 1888, this work was relinquished 

 before any report was issued. Several important papers have appeared 

 from his pen in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, the 

 Canadian Entomologist, the Ottawa Naturalist and the Nautilus. Many 



