286 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



It was during the period of his second residence in Vancouver Island 

 that Mr. Taylor became a constant contributor to the pages of the 

 Canadian Entomologist. In the volumes of that magazine numbered 

 from XXXVI to XLII inclusive no less than eighteen papers from his hand 

 appear. His last contribution, entitled ''On some New Species of Mesol- 

 euca," is given in the number for March, 19 lo. 



Of late years Mr. Taylor gave much attention to the Geometridae, 

 especially those belonging to the genera Eupithec'iœ Curtis and Mesoleuca 

 Hiibner. Of these he described and named many new species. The 

 whole of his collection of Geometridse has been recently purchased by Dr. 

 Wm. Barnes, of Decatur, who, without doubt, will make excellent use of 

 it ; but we cannot but regret that so much of the fruit of our late friend's 

 research and ability should have passed from the Dominion. 



In 1881 Mr. Taylor was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of 

 Canada. He had been for many years a Fellow of the Zoological and 

 Entomological Societies of England, and fifteen years ago he was elected 

 a Corresponding Member of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club. All 

 these societies have been benefitted by his labours. 



In the Thirty-fourth Annual Report of our own society appears a 

 highly-appreciative and eulogistic account of Mr. Taylor from the pen of 

 the late Dr. Fletcher. From it we learn that many naturalists have given 

 honour to Mr. Taylor by naming after him new species of various kinds, 

 as, for example : Melitœa taylori W. H. Edwards, Mediolaria taylori 

 Dall, Leucandra taylori Lambe. 



Undoubtedly Mr. Tayloi's chief scientific work was done in connec- 

 tion with Marine Zoology, and in recognition of this the Federal Govern- 

 ment, in 1905, appointed him a member of the Dominion Fisheries 

 Commission for British Columbia. In the report of that Commission, 

 Mr. Taylor described as many as thirty kinds of edible shell-fish. 



''There is in course of publication by the Dominion Government at 

 the present time a very long and valuable report on the crabs, shrimps, 

 and other Crustacea of British Columbia." — {Ottawa Eve7iing Journal^ 

 Aug. 24th, 1912.) 



