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Vol. XLIX. LONDON, FEBRUARY, 1917 No. 2 



EDMUND BAYNES REED. 



Few of the present members of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario have any knowledge of the pioneer work which was 

 done more than half a century ago by a small band of enthusiastic 

 entomologists. Very few of those who joined in its organization 

 on the 16th of April, 1863. sur\i\ed to witness its Jubilee three 

 years ago; among these were IVIr. Edmund Baynes Reed, and now 

 he has in his turn been removed by death after a long illness due to 

 heart trouble. He died at Victoria, B.C.. on Saturday, November 

 18th, in the 79th year of his age. 



Mr. Reed came to Canada from England when a young man 

 and settled in London, Ontario, where for some years he practiced 

 his profession as a lawyer. The kind of work it entailed was not 

 very congenial to him, and was consequently abandoned. 



As a devoted member of the Church of England, he took a 

 keen and active interest in its concerns, and became Secretary- 

 Treasurer of the Synod of the Diocese of Huron — a position which 

 he continued to hold until his remo\al to British Columbia in the 

 year 1890. 



From his boyhood days in England he was devoted to Natural 

 History, and especially to the collection and stud\' of insects. To 

 these pursuits he devoted most of his leisure hours, and when the 

 Society was formed he became one of its most energetic and useful 

 members. To him was chiefly due the establishment of the 

 library which is now one of the most valuable of the kind in the 

 Dominion. In co-operation with Dr. William Saunders he was 

 instrumental in forming the London Branch of the Society, which 

 grew and flourished for several years and was finall\- absorbed by 

 the parent Society when its headquarters were removed to London. 

 When it was decided to send a representative collection of Canadian 

 insects to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, Mr. 

 Reed devoted all his spare time during many months to its prepara- 



