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As is the case with all really enthusiastic entomologists, his love 

 of science and natural history showed itself at an early age, and 

 quickly became a veritable passion. At the City of London School, 

 he became a vigorous membei- of the Natural History Society, and 

 impressed his personality upon his young colleagues and masters, so 

 that he was appointed Curator of the School Museum. 



He followed both his father and his mother's family's example in 

 entering a shipping business, where his overflowing energy manifested 

 itself as much in his work as in his hobbies. In spite of the strain of 

 daily toil in the city, he worked early and late at entomology : a 

 voracious reader, he studied late into the night ; in summer, when the 

 days are long, he snatched a brief hour with the microscope before 

 starting for the city in the morning, and on returning home in the 

 evening was not too fatigued to make the most of the remaining day- 

 light. 



A regular attendant at the meetings of the Entomological Society, 

 which he joined in 1898, he was a famiHar figure among piles of books 

 in the library ; he occasionally was seen at the meetings of tbe South 

 London Entomological Society at Hibernia Chambers. 



A glutton for work and an omnivorous reader, he had a wide and 

 sound knowledge of zoology, and yet fo\md time to gain a very useful 

 ac(iuamtance with a variety of subjects. Music, above all, was a 

 passion v.'ith him, and sometimes a good orchestral concert could (h-aw 

 him away even from entomological meetings. 



Living in London, he had little opportunity of gaining a colloquial 

 acquaintance with many languages, but from his correspondence with 

 numerous colleagues all the world over, and his literary researches, 

 he could read with varying ease, not only French, German, Italian, 

 and Latin, but also Spanish, Danish, Sw^edish, Bohemian, and after- 

 wards Hawaiian. He occasionally published brief papers in the first 

 three languages, and his manuscript did not require a great deal of 

 correction. 



Although in later years he included within his scope the Hemiptera 

 of the world, his first favourites were the aquatic groups of the British 

 Fauna. In 1897, he published " Notes on the genus Siiiara,'' in the 

 I'.ntoinolntjist, followed by "Synonymic notes on Aquatic Khynchota," 

 which led to " A (iuide to Ihe Study of British Waterbugs," which 

 ap])eared at intervals in the pages of the Entiviwloijist until 1906. He 

 contributed numerous papers to the Annah and Mat/azinc of Natural 

 Uisturi/, the Journal of the Qiieketl Microscopical Society, the Natural 

 lliatori/ of Soltotra, Fauna Uawaiionsis, and several continental 

 journals. His earliest important original paper was his " Revision of 

 the genus A'oto»('(trt," published in the 'rraiinidtinns of tlif f'litniunloiiiral 

 Sncieti/ nf London, in 1898. 



But though the days at liilliter Avenue were very happy ones, 

 when he was surrounded by friends and familiar faces, he gladly 

 accepted a post which fdl'ered more scope to his abilities and (|ualilica- 

 tions, on the entomological staff of the United States Department of 

 .\gricultare and Forestry at Honolulu, shortly afterwards transferred 

 to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. In the summer of 1903 

 he said good-bye to his l^nglish friends, and sailed for the perpetual 

 summer (jf the South Pacific. But he i-emained on the advisory stall" 



