34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



OBITUARY. 



• SAMUEL T. WOOD. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Samuel T. Wood, of the 

 Editorial Staff of the Toronto "Globe," which took place, after a 

 lingering illness, on Nov. 6, 1917, at his residence in Toronto. 



By his death Canada has lost a writer of great charm, and 

 this loss will be felt by a wide circle of readers, particularly among 

 nature lovers, for it was by his writings on natural history that 

 Mr. Wood was best known. 



Mr. Wood, who was of Scotch-Irish parentage, was born en 

 a backwood farm in Hastings County, Ont., in 1860, and was 

 educated at the Belleville public and high schools and the Belle- 

 ville Business College. Having been from his youth an earnest 

 advocate of single tax he was naturally attracted to journalism 

 as a vocation, and after a year on an Ottawa newspaper he 

 entered the service of the Toronto Globe, first as a reporter and 

 later as an editorial writer. 



For some twenty years past he contributed a series of Satur- 

 day editorials on various phases of natural history, and these 

 articles reveal an accuracy of observation, together with a deep 

 sense of the poetical in nature, which never degenerated into 

 sentimentality. A selection of these articles was recently pub- 

 lished under the title "Ramblings of a Canadian Naturalist," 

 and met with a ready sale among the thousands of readers, who 

 were already familiar with his work in "The Globe." 



Although more particularly interested in birds, Mr. Wood 

 possessed a love of nature too broad to restrict him to any one 

 branch of natural history, and though he would have been the 

 last person to claim for himself the title of "entomologist," his 

 observations frequently led him to discourse on insects and their 

 ways in his usual delightful manner. He was a member of the 

 Toronto Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and 

 although not an active contributor to its proceedings his presence 

 at the meetings was always welcome, for he was a most intelligent 

 listener, and usually had some pertinent question or observation 

 to make on the subject in hand. 



