LINXEAN SOCIETi' OF LOXDON. 47 



Arthur Erxest Gibbs was born in the year 1S59, the elder son 

 of Mr. Alderman Richard Gribbs, J. P., of the Hollies, St. Albans,, 

 and was educated at Warwick and Worthing. On leaving school he 

 entered the otfices of Gibbs and Barnford, a local firm of printers, 

 with which his fauiilj had been connected for several generations. 

 His father having established the ' Herts Advertiser,' young Gibbs 

 passed to the journalist side of the business, and became editor 

 and co-proprietor, and to the last he kept a general oversight of 

 the paper, after ceasing to be editor. 



As a boy he began collecting lepidoptera, and that taste 

 remained with him to the end of his life, and he had travelled 

 practically over the whole of Europe in search of specimens. He 

 had explored the Balkans entomologically, and on the outbreak of 

 the present war he was at Lyons outward bound, and reached 

 home after exceptional difficulties. 



In 1SS5-6 he copied the whole of the manuscript flora of the 

 late Alfred Eeginald Pryor, E.L.S. (1839-18S1), arranging the 

 localities in districts and to a settled sequence, thereby facili- 

 tating the labours of the editor, the present writer of this notice. 



Mr. Gibbs had been a member of the Hertfordshire Natural 

 History Society since 1879, and had served as Secretary; in 

 1915 he was elected President, and for his Presidential Address 

 in 1916 he selected "The Satyrid Butterflies of Hertfordshire, 

 with a short study of Pararge aegeria " ; for his second and con- 

 cluding address, he had chosen a study of certain dialect words 

 and phrases of his native connty, a design he could not carry out,, 

 for his death cut short that project. He died on the 3rd March, 

 1917, and was buried on the 6th. 



His love for entomology has been mentioned, and his actiA^e 

 help in botany also ; he had some knowledge of geology, and the 

 bent of his relaxation may be gauged by the societies to which he 

 belonged. He was elected Fellow of our Society, ISth March, 

 1886; of the Entomological in 1906, serving on its Council 

 1912-14, and had been recently re-elected for a second term ; of 

 the Zoological Society in 1912, and the Eoyal Horticidtural Society. 

 He also belonged to the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society from 1909, and was a Vice-President. A widow 

 and three daughters survive the husband and father, whose 

 energetic services in the cause of his native place has evoked 

 widespread sympathy for his family. [B. D, J.] 



Although Mr. Herbert Jones had been a Eellow since 19th 

 February, 1891, was a frequent attendant at our meetings, and 

 belonged to the West Kent Natural History Society, it must be 

 admitted that liis strongest bent was towards archaeology. He 

 was born in 1839, educated at private schools at Brighton and 

 Waustead, and studied in Germany. He bestowed much attention 

 to the excavations at the Roman city of Silchester, and was con- 

 stantly to be found at the display of finds when exhibited at 



