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OBITUARY. 



THOMAS WORKMAN, J. P. 



The suddeu death iu St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., on nth Ma}', of 

 Mr. Thomas Workman, caused deep regret not only in Belfast and its 

 Natural History and Philosophical Society (of which he was at the time 

 President), but throughout Ireland. Although largely occupied in 

 business, religious, and philanthropic work, INIr. Workman devoted much 

 time to natural history pursuits, and undertook several journeys to 

 tropical countries largely with the object of studying exotic animals in 

 their natural surroundings. In 1881 he visited Brazil ; in 1883 he spent 

 eight months in the east — India, Burniah, Singapore, China, and the 

 Phillipines. In 1888 he was in vSingapore and Ceylon, in 1890 in Singa- 

 pore and Java, and in 1892 in Cejdou, Singapore, and India again. As 

 already mentioned, his death — at the age of 56 — took place during an ex- 

 tensive journey in North America. Notes of many of these journeys were 

 communicated to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Workman was well-known to zoologists as an ardent student of 

 the spiders. On the suggestion of the Rev. O. P. Cambridge he made 

 large collections of these animals in Ulster. He published a valuable 

 Irish list in 18S0 {Entomologist^ vol. xiii.), and gave much generous help 

 to one of the editors of this journal in recent years. Mr. Workman 

 leaves an unfinished book on Malaysian Spiders, with plates and 

 valuable synonymic and bionomic notes. Only one complete volume 

 has been published, but it is hoped that the deceased naturalist's MSS. 

 will allow at least some more of his valuable work to be given to his 

 fellow-students of a most fascinating group of animals. 



ARTHUR WYNNE FOOT, M.D. 



A link with the former generation of Irish naturalists is severed by the 

 death of Dr. A. W. P'oot, which took place on September ist, after years 

 of delicate health. Born at Dublin in 1838, he graduated in Arts and 

 Medicine at Trinity College in 1862, and subsequently rose to great 

 eminence in his profession, occupjdug in later years the posts of Vice- 

 President of the College of Physicians, and Professor of Medicine in the 

 College of vSurgeons, He will be remembered by naturalists for his 

 researches in Irish entomology. Almost the only follower in this 

 country of the great Haliday's work on the Diptera, Dr. Foot published 

 two valuable papers in the sixth volume of the Proceedings of the Dublin 

 Nat. Hist. Society (1869). 



