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life wrote articles and gave lectures of a popular character, 

 chiefly on subjects of a scientific nature. 



In 1884 he removed to Ealing and soon joined the Ealing 

 Microscopical and Natural History Society. He served on its 

 Council and acted as a Vice-President. 



For twenty-six years he was secretary of the Haven Green 

 Baptist Church and only resigned when failing health compelled 

 him to lead a less strenuous life. 



He went to live at Blackheath in 1914, but continued to go 

 to business, travelling daily to Paddington, up to within a 

 month of his death. After four weeks of acute suffering, only 

 partially relieved by an operation, he died on June 10th, 1916. 



Emily J. Lewis. 



FREDERIC ENOCK, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., F.E S. 



April 17th, 1845— Ma^/ 2m, 1916. 



It is with great regret we record the death of Mr. Enock, which 

 took place at Hastings at the age of seventy-one years. Mr. 

 Enock was born at Manchester in 1845 and was educated at the 

 Society of Friends' School, Ackworth, Yorks. He joined the 

 Birmingham Natural History Society in 1865 and was for some 

 time latterly the Father of the Society. He joined the Quekett 

 Microscopical Club in 1871 and was elected an Honorary Member 

 in 1912. Mr. Enock had become well known to many by his 

 popular lectures on Insects, Spiders, etc., illustrated by coloured 

 drawings of exceptional skill and beauty. He also contributed 

 illustrated articles on Entomology to the popular magazines. 

 His chief claim to scientific distinction is the work he did on the 

 till then little-known group of the Myrmaridae, minute hymenop- 

 terous insects which pass their larval stage as egg-parasites. A 

 monograph on this group of insects — " fairy-flies " as Mr. Enock 

 styled them — had been in preparation for some years and we 

 are informed was nearly ready for publication at the time of 

 his death. 



It is very probable that Mr. Enock was the first to mount 

 insects for the microscope "without pressure." At the Loan 

 Collection of Scientific Apparatus, held at South Kensington 

 in 1876, he exhibited " A Collection of Entomological Prepara- 



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