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Vol. XXX. LONDON, APRIL, 1898. No. 4. 



PROFESSOR J. HOYES PANTON, M. A., F. G. S. 



It is our sad duty to record the death of Professor Panton, which 

 took place at Guelph, on the 2nd of February, after a long and very pain- 

 ful illness, which he bore with the utmost patience and resignation. He 

 was born at Cupar, in Fifeshire, Scotland, and was brought out to Canada 

 when a child ; his father settled in Toronto at first, and removed, after 

 some years, to Oshawa. He was educated at the Whitby High School 

 and Toronto University, where he graduated with honours in Natural 

 Science in 1877. The following year he was appointed Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Ontario Agricultural College, but after a few years 

 resigned the position and removed to Winnipeg, where he became principal 

 of the Collegiate Institute. In 1885 he accepted the invitation of the 

 Ontario Government and returned to Guelph, where he filled the position 

 of Professor of Natural History and Geology in the Agricultural College 

 till the time of his death. His work there had special relation to economic 

 entomology and botany, on which subjects he issued many useful 

 bulletins to farmers and fruit-growers. He also published two small 

 works on Economic Geology and " Insect Foes," which are valuable 

 manuals of an elementary character. ~ In 1896 Professor Panton attended 

 for the first time the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, though he had long been a member, and on that occasion read 

 very interesting and useful papers on " Entomology for Rural Schools " 

 and "Two Insect Pests of 1896 — the Army Worm and the Tussock 

 Moth." At the recent annual meeting in October, 1897, he was elected 

 vice-president of the Society, but was unable to attend owing to the illness 

 which had already seized upon him. The following resolution of con- 

 dolence was adopted at a meeting of the Council held last month : " The 

 members of the Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario have 

 heard with profound regret of the death of their highly respected colleague 

 and vice-president, J. Hoyes Panton, M. A., F. G. S., Professor of Biology 

 and Geology in the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. They desire to 

 place on record their admiration for his talents and attainments in natural 



