2o8 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In 1863 he toured the English lakes : and, in the spring of 1865^ 

 North \\'ales and Ireland ; a]id in the autumn he again visited Paris, 

 (leneva, Lucerne, Interlachen, and Altdorf, ascending the Righi, Mont 

 Pilatus and the JMiirren, and proceedmg to Kandersteg, the Oeschnien 

 See, and the Gemmi Pass. 



In 1867 we hnd him again in France and Switzerland, ascending the 

 Col de \'o/a, and examining the Jardin of the Mer de Glace ; thence over 

 the Tete Noir to Martigny, Sion, and the Great St. Bernard; returning by 

 St. Maurice and the Villeneuve to Cieneva. 



In 1869 he made the tour of the Isle of Man, aiid returned by Holy- 

 head ; in 1870 he paid another visit to Llanberis, as well as to all the more 

 beautiful scenery in North AVales, crossing over to Ireland, and touring 

 that island from south to north ; and in 1871 he examined Entomologically 

 the Scilly Islands, and the districts of the Lizard and the Land's End. 



In 1872 he turned his attention to Italy, visiting Rome, Piza, Lucca,. 

 Florence, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Milan, and Venice, as well as the Lakes 

 of Como and Maggiore. 



And, finally, in the present year, he had again proceeded as far as 

 Aberystwith, on his way to Ireland, when his intention was frustrated by 

 illness, which terminated fatally on the 5th of October. He died in the 

 most perfect peace of body and of mind. For many years Mr. Walker 

 was a member of the Linnean and Entomological Societies of London, 

 but resigned his membershi]; in both some time before the close of his- 

 life. 



It might be excusable in a man of such incessant bodily activity — so 

 locomotive by inclination, so devoted to the study of Nature in all her 

 aspects, so dilligent a collector of the objects of his favourite study — had 

 he allowed his pen to rest v»'hile his hands were engaged in forming and 

 arranging his collections. But this was not the case with Mr. Walker, as 

 his Catalogues of the National Collection abundantlv testifv. Of the 

 Lepidoptera Heterocera, alone, Mr. W^alker catalogued and described 

 upwards of twenty-three thousand species ; in addition to which he pre- 

 pared similar catalogues, although perhaps not to the same extent, of the 

 Diptera, Orthoptera, Homoptera, Neuroptera, and part of the Hymen- 

 optera : such an amount of labour, as is testified by these catalogues, has 

 seldom, if ever, been accomplished by one individual. But this statement 

 by no means represents the whole of his literary labours. He contributed 



