140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Miss Annie M. Wittfeld, only daughter of Dr. Wm. Wittfeld, of 

 Fairyland, Indian River, Florida, died suddenly of rheumatism of the 

 heart on the ioth April, aged 23. Fifteen months before — to a day — Dr. 

 Wittfeld had lost his only son by brain fever while down the coast on a 

 boating expedition, and so the stricken parents are desolate. It is about 

 ten years since Miss Annie began to aid me in obtaining eggs and larvae 

 of butterflies, and it is mostly owing to her zealous, friendly and intelli- 

 gent assistance that I have been able to learn the history of so many 

 Florida species. Her death is a loss to science. The readers of this 

 magazine will sympathize with Dr. and Mrs. Wittfeld in their bereave- 

 ment. W. H. Edwards. 



DEATH OF THE "YOKOHAMA NATURALIST." 



Particulars have been received of the death in Japan, on the 17th of 

 February, of Mr. Harry Pryer, C. M. Z S., the Yokohama naturalist, at 

 the early age of thirty-seven. When Mr. Pryer went to Japan in 1S70 he 

 was already known as an active Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London. In the intervals of a busy mercantile career he interested him- 

 self in Japanese natural history, and soon became a recognized authority 

 on the subject. In conjunction with Captain F. Blakiston, he wrote the 

 standard monograph on the birds of Japan, and at the time of his death 

 he was engaged in publishing in English and Japanese an important work 

 on the butterflies of Japan, entitled " Rhopalocera Nihonica." Mr. Pryer 

 was not only an assiduous collector, but a keen observer and a practical 

 investigator, and his researches on the parasites of the silk worm have 

 been of material advantage to the silk culture of Japan. His house and 

 garden were filled with valuable specimens and collections of animals and 

 insects, living and dead, and the loss sustained by the European com- 

 munity through his death is shared by the Japanese, who recognize the 

 valuable services he rendered in connection with the establishment and 

 maintenance of the museum at Tokio. — Pall Mall Gazette. 



