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with the maranding Masai. I hear excellent reports of Usambara, and look forward 

 to my visit there." 



The letter of Fehrnary 14th was the last I had from Doherty. 



lu May he fell ill and became very nervous, omitting to take exercise, to which 

 he was so much accustomed before. For fear of a raid of the Wa Kikuyu, of which 

 (according to letters from railway officials) there was never any real danger, he had 

 himself removed from the Escarpment to a bungalow on the line : and later on, when 

 he was no more able to walk, his men took him to the railway hospital at Nairobi, 

 where he had the company of white men and medical treatment, but died on May 

 25th, of dysentery. 



Eequiescat in Pace. 



It remains to be said that he sent us from the Escarpment a collection of nearly 

 3000 bird skins, and an immense collection of lepidojitera — in fact the first really 

 representative collection of rhopalocera and heterocera ever sent from one place in 

 British East Africa. 



The importance of Doherty's work for systematic zoology cannot easily be 

 measured. He has done more than any other single man in collecting lepidoptera, 

 and in studying the materials he obtained. He sent collections of lepidoptera, 

 coleoptera and other insects to many museums and private collectors : among others, 

 lepidoptera to Neumoegen and Holland in America : Rothschild, Oberthilr, Elwes, 

 Staudinger, Doncaster, Janson, Fruhstorfer, and the British Museum in Europe ; 

 coleoptera to Bates, Fry, Janson, Rothschild; other insects to the Calcutta Museum, 

 Janson, Staudinger, Distant, Bingham ; landshells to Godwin- Austen and others; 

 birdskins to the Tring Museum. In fact, Mr. Rothschild's Museum owes to his zeal 

 the most important material from the Eastern Archipelago and East Africa. In 

 almost countless works and articles specimens obtained by him are mentioned and 

 described, and sometimes form the chief basis. 



The following scientific articles are entirely based on collections made by 

 Doherty, but the list will hardly be complete, and a vast material of his recent 

 collections remains still to be worked ont in this and other Museums : — 



1. Holland : Asiatic lepidoptera. List of the Diurnal lepidoptera taken by 

 Mr. AVilliam Doherty in Celebes, June and July 1887. In Proc Boston Soe. Nat. 

 Hut. XXV. (1«92), pp. 52—82, Pis. III. IV. V. 



2. W. Rothschild : Notes on a collection of lepidoptera (Rhojialocera) made by 

 Will. Doherty in S. Celebes, August, September 1891. In " Iris," Dresden, IV., 

 " Jahrgang 1891," pp. 429—442, Pis. IV.— VII. (1892). 



3. Godwin-Austen : On new species and varieties of the Land-Mollnscan genus 

 DiplomimUiita from the Garo, Naga, and Manipur hill ranges, Assam. In rroc. 

 Zool. Sac, London, 1892, pp. 509—520. 



4. Godwin-Austen : On some new species of the Land-Molluscan genus 

 A/i/rwii.s from the Khasi and Naga Hill country, Assam, Manipur and Upper 

 Burmah. In Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1893, pp. 592—595. 



