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Vol. XLIV. LONDON, OCTOBER, 1912. No. 10 



THE REV. GEORGE W. TAYLOR, F. R. S. C., F. Z. S. 



The subject of this memoir was born in Derby, England, in 185 1, and 

 came to Canada when he was twenty- five years of age. He settled in 

 Vancouver Island and studied for the Ministry under the Rt. Rev. George 

 Hills, D. D., Bishop of Columbia. He was made a deacon in 1884 and 

 ordained to the priesthood in 1886. His first clerical charge was Cedar 

 Hill. He had already given attention to the attractive and but little known 

 fauna of the Pacific Coast, for in the preface to the Toronto Check List 

 of Insects, which was published in 1883, Messrs. Brodie and White speak 

 of him as a collector to whom their thanks were due, and at the annual 

 meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, held at London, Ont.^ 

 October 15, 1884, Mr. James Fletcher presented, on behalf of Mr, Taylor, a 

 collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera to the society. On this occasion Mr, 

 Fletcher said that although Mr. Taylor was but a new member "he had al- 

 ready done good work." In the report of this meeting the first contribu- 

 ton, by the Rev. G. W. Taylor, to the annals of the Society, appears. It is 

 entitled '' Notes on the Entomology of Vancouver Island. " In the 

 Canadian Entomologist for the same year (Vol. XVI) other papers 

 written by him will be found. 



In 1887, Mr. Taylor was appointed Honorary Provincial Entomolo- 

 gist of British Columbia. In the Annual Report -of the Entomological 

 Society for that year he published a very interesting account of a series of 

 expeditions made by himself, Mr, Fletcher, Professor Macoun, Mr. Tolmie 

 and others, to the summit of Mount Finlayson, in search of Chionobas 

 gigas Butler. 



After some years' active service during which he had built a church, 

 he resigned his charge in Columbia Diocese, and moved to Ottawa. There 

 he was favourably received by the Ecclesiastical authorities ; and there he 

 founded the church of St. Barnabas. But after some years, for the beneftt 

 of his health, he returned to British Columbia and became rector of the 

 church at Wellington, near Nanaimo. He retained this charge until five 

 years ago when he was appointed by the Federal Government Curator of 

 the Biological Station at Departure Bay. 



