248 . THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a large volume on the subject, under the title, "Sliaksper not Shakespeare." 

 His last work was the compilation of a genealogy of the Edwards family, 

 published in 1903. 



For many years during the period of his active studies all new 

 specimens of North American butterflies received by the Smithsonian 

 Institution of Washington were sent to him for description and classifica- 

 tion, and also a 1 collections of North American examples possessed by 

 the Imperial Russian Government and any new species from this continent 

 that came to the P.ritish Museum were sent to him for identification. He 

 thus became the author of a large number of new species, whose names, 

 conferred by him, will in nearly all cases endure. His own extensive and 

 valuable collections were purchased a few years ago by the Carnegie 

 Institution at Pittsburg and are now in the care of Dr. W. J. Holland, the 

 Director. Mr. Edwards kept up a world-wide correspondence during a 

 long period of years and was an active or honorary member of many 

 scientific societies both in America and abroad. In November, 1868, he 

 was elected an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 being one of the very first whom our Society recognized as a leader in 

 Entomology, and whose name it felt proud to inscribe on its roll of 

 distinguished members. I le was a man of profound and varied learning, 

 a thorough scholar, an earnest student of nature, gifted with more than 

 ordinary powers of observation. To those who knew him well he was 

 endeared by many attractive characteristics ; kind, open-hearted, cheery 

 and courteous, free from pride and ostentation, widely respected and 

 f uemost in all that pertained to the welfare of the community in which he 

 iived, he attained to a venerable old age and has left behind a fragrant 

 memory that will not soon pass away. On the 2nd of April, 1909, he 

 died at his home in Coalburgh, West Virginia, at the age of 87 years. 



( '. J. s. Bethune. 



CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM, OTTAWA. 



It is gratifying to learn that Mr. Arthur Gibson's position in the 

 Entomological department of the Experimental Farm at Ottawa is not 

 affected by the recent appointments to fill the place of the late Dr. Fletcher. 

 He is a member of the " Inside Civil Service " of the Dominion, and his 

 position is permanent, whatever other changes may take place. It is much 

 to be hoped that his knowledge and experience may long be available for 

 the experimental and research work carried on at the P'arm, and for the 

 maintenance of the extensive correspondence with enquirers respecting 

 insects in all parts of the Dominion. 



