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was frequent in his attendance at oar meetings, and occasionally 

 exhibited specimens of Araciuiida, wliicli he specially studied. In 

 our own publications are to be found papers on Te(/en(i)-ia, the 

 House-spider — its cocoon, glands in its maxillae, parthenogenesis, 

 and the pairing of the species ; stridulating organs m Steatoda and 

 Linypliia : on the flight of Dragonflies and the Humming-bird 

 Hawk-moth ; these extended from 1S80 to 1883. Upon his 

 election on the 19th December, 1878, he was living at Rose Hill, 

 Hoddesdon, and in February 1886 was chosen as President of the 

 Herts Natural History Society, serving the customary two years, 

 and at the successive Anniversary Meetings in 1887 and 1888 

 delivering an address, the first being on 'The Means of Protection 

 possessed by Plants,' suggested hy the recent issue of E. x\. Prior's 

 'Flora of Hertfordshire,' and the second on ' Structural Variations 

 in the Eyes of Animals in reference to their Function ' — both 

 printed in the fifth volume' of that Society's Transactions. Other 

 papers written by him on 'Instinct,' 'Habits and Economy of our 

 Social Wasps, ' Tiie Eussian Fly,' and ' A White Stoat at Hoddes- 

 don,' from 1886 to 1892, are also in the Transactions of the 

 Herts Society. 



In 1902 he married a Welsh lady and removed to Bryullwydwyn, 

 near Machynlleth, in Montgomeryshire, where he remained till 

 1919, when, having become a widower, he removed to South 

 Nutfield, Surrey, and after some months he married again, 

 passing away, as previously stated, on the last day of 1920. He 

 was also a Fellow of the Zoological, Entonjological, and Royal 

 Microscopical Societies. [B. D. J.l 



Feedeeick Moore Clements was born in England, but being of 

 a roving disposition, he travelled in Central Africa, there meeting 

 Mr. F. O. Selous, and tinally settled at Sydney, New South Wales. 

 He was successful in pliarmacy and had a good knowledge of 

 medicinal plants; he cultivated many of them in a large and beau- 

 tiful garden a short distance outside Sydney, where also he had an 

 aviary containing several hundreds of native and foreign birds. 

 He gave liberally to patriotic objects — .£1000 on " Austialia Day " 

 and i;500 on "Belgium Day." His valuable library was bequeathed 

 in great part to the Linnean Society of New South Wales. In 

 his will he directed that many charities in England should benefit, 

 especially the parish oi' Clun, in Shropshire, \\ here the poor were 

 to receive cei'tain gifts every Christmas, He Mas elected Fellow 

 ot" our Society on the 1st March, 1917, and died at his house, 

 "Braiiea" at Stanmore, on the outskirts of Sydney, on the 

 17th August, 1920, and was buried two days later at the Waverley 

 Cemetery. 



About two years ago he ])rinted aiul distributed a little 

 pamphlet, ' Some Faces and Places of Clem,' a characteristic pro- 

 duct of the man; it contains a catalogue of the plants in his 

 garden, amounting to nearly 800 names. [B. D, J.] 



