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und Sussex Natural History Society, and as early as 1856 he 

 contributed to the ' Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer ' and 

 drew up a list of European Butterflies, the first Euglish work of 

 the kind. In 1860 he came to London, and joining the Entomo- 

 lofieal Society in the following year, he made the acquaintance of 

 the leading entomologists of the time. In 1866 he married 

 Johanna Maria Kappel, of Hilden, near Diisseldorf, whose help 

 in his literary work was invaluable ; their only sou. Dr. W. Egmont 

 Kirby, has issued some entomological works. Kirby became 

 assistant in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society in 1867, 

 the year his only child was born ; but on the death of Frederick 

 Smith in 1879, he removed to London, and took up duty in the 

 zoological department of the British Museum, then at Bloomsbury, 

 and kept up his connection with that institution till the year 1909, 

 when he retired under the regulation lor age. 



During his official life he was actively busy in tlie preparation 

 of volumes which are still invaluable to the worker in entomology. 

 The siglit of H. W. Bates's MS. list of insects suggested probably 

 the most useful of Kirby's volumes, his well-known ' Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera ' 1871, Supplement in 1877. 

 A similar volume, ' Lepidoptera Heterocera ; Sphinges and 

 Bombyces,' 1892, is unfortunately left incomplete, owing to 

 insufficient support. He compiled several Catalogues for the 

 British Museum, as ' Tentbredinidse ' 1883; and ' Odonata' 1890; 

 Orthoptera, in 3 vols., 1904-10. 



Erom 1869 to 1884 he contributed the reports on Lepidoptera 

 to the 'Zoological Record,' and for some years the entire depart- 

 ment of entomology in that series rested upon him. Introductory 

 works were also produced by him, but his activities were not 

 bounded by his scientific studies, for he also publislied a trans- 

 lation of the great Finnish epic, the " Kalavala." 



From what has been said it will be understood that his know- 

 ledge of entomological literature was not only great, but was 

 unrivalled. As stated, he joined the Entomological Society in 

 1861, and the Linnean Society on the 17th April, 1890, and was 

 a member of other associations, literary and scientific, which took 

 up much of his spare time. He died on the 20th November, 1912, 

 after a short illness, and was buried at Chiswick Cemetery on the 

 26th following, in the presence of many fellow- workers in his 

 favourite branch of science. [B. D. J.] 



FrajS'cis Gkay Smart, who was born in January 1834, was the 

 son of a medical man and was educated for the same profession. 

 He entered Cains College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 

 1867, proceeding M.A. in 1871, and also taking his B.M. degree. 

 Soon after this he settled at Bredbury, Tunbridge Wells, and 

 identified himself with all philanthropic movements. He gave 

 freely to hospitals and local institutions for helping the poor, and 

 in educational matters he founded the Frank Smart Scholarships, 

 one at Caius in 1887 and another for the University in 1904 as 



