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He was a Member of the Royal Historical Society, of the Society 

 of Arts, and of the Surrey Archaeological Society, and was elected a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society on lUth June, 1849. 



William Hodgsoij, whose election as an Associate took place on 

 15th February, 1884, was born in the county of Cumberland, at 

 Eaughton Head, near Dalston, on 7th April, 1824. "When only 

 1 7 years of age he became parish schoolmaster at Watermillock, 

 and afterwards at Aspatria in a similar post. From early years he 

 gave much attention to botany, and, largely in consequence of en- 

 couragement by Mr. J. G. Baker, he produced in 1808 a ' Flora of 

 Cumberland," in many respects a meritorious work. Since then he 

 became busied on an account of the plants of his native county for 

 the Victoria series of county histories in course of publication, with 

 Mr. Trevor-Battye as editor. 



He died at his residence in "Workington on 27th March last. 



Jonit Henby Leech, who died on 2Sth December, 1900, at Hindcott 

 House, near Salisbury, aged but 38 years, was an Entomologist of 

 great industrj^ and enthusiasm. Born at Gorse Hall, Dukinfield, 

 Cheshire, he was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, where he 

 took his B.A. ; and while but a boy he showed leanings towards 

 natural history pursuits, which early became predominantly en- 

 tomological. While still at College he suffered the loss of his 

 left hand by a gun accident, but this in no way lessened his 

 ardour and service as a collector in the field. His first published 

 work on tho British Pyralides (1886) was famous for its com- 

 pleteness, there being given a coloured figure of each of the Deltoids, 

 Pyralides, Crambi, and Pterophori then known throughout the 

 British Isles. The fame of this book led to a suspicion that 

 so young and promising an author might produce others of a 

 similar kind, but, contrary to expectation, he in 1886 entered 

 instead upon the colossal task of investigating the insect fauna of 

 Japan and the Corca, and parts of the N. -Western Himalayas, and 

 Central and Western China. Having in 1884 collected on the 

 Amazons, and in 1885, with magnificent results, in Morocco, the 

 Canaries, and Madeira, Leech largely availed himself of the aid of 

 collectors in the carrying out of his extensive programme : but 

 this notwithstanding, the story of his own share in the field-work of 

 its initiatory period teems with interest and records of adventure, 

 which show him to have been a man of extraordinary persistence 

 and powers of originality and resource.* Ho worked in all some 

 14-15 years upon the Palpearctic and E. Asian Lepidoptera, and 

 his 'Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corca,' the chief outcome 

 of his labours, is a standard Avork of reference, which ranks high 

 in contemporary zoological literature. While investigating the rich 

 collections of Lepidoptera which he acquired. Leech forsook the 



* Defails will be found in a most ajipreciative notice in t,be 'Entomologist,' 

 vol. xxxiv. pp. 34-3G. 



