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graduated as B.A. in 1907, and M.A. in 1911. While at Oxford we hear that 

 he had some idea of " specialising " on Arachnida, but he does not appear to 

 have ever actvially done so. His holidays from 1900 to 1902 and also the spring 

 of 1901, were spent in Morocco, where he did a good deal of collecting ; and 

 in 1907-8 he went on an extended yachting cruise, with the late Lord Crawford, 

 to the Federated Malay States and Borneo. 



In 1904 he became a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, and 

 in 1914 was elected to its Council. On Marcli 1st of this year he attended the 

 latter for the last time, and on March loth tlie Presidenb had the sad duty of 

 announcing to the assembled Fellows that they had just lost a colleague who 

 had " endeared himself to us all." 



His modesty, intelligence, and charming mannersVon him " golden opinions 

 from all sorts of people." One of his Oxford teachers writes : " I was very fond 

 of him, as were all those of his contemporaries who got to know his fine 

 character, an English gentleman in the best sense of the word." Further 

 details of his work and personality may be fovmd in a most interesting and 

 sympathetic notice contained in the April number of our contemporary, " The 

 Entomologist," written evidently by one who knew him well, and was specially 

 qualified to bear testimony to the excellence of his character and his work. 



^oricties. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, March 1st, 1916. — 

 Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the decision of the Council, it was announced that the 

 Special Meeting for consideration of the proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws 

 would take place on April 5th before the Ordinary Meeting, and the Fellows 

 present decided that the hour should be 7.30. 



Mr. J. H. Durrant exhibited a fine variety of Arctia caja L., <? , with dark 

 fuscous hind-wings ; also a specimen of Laverna nodicolella Fuchs, taken at 

 Westerham, Kent, June 24th, 1915, by Mr. P. A. Buxton. This species has not 

 been recorded as British. Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, several 

 species of Rhopalocera from Waigeu, and contributed notes. Prof. Poulton, a 

 specimen of a hawk-moth, Chro^nis erotus Cr. (eras, Boisd.), found in the 

 stomach of a fish in Sixva Harbour, Fiji ; also a series of Danaida chrysippus L., 

 from Fernando Po. Mr. G. Meade- Waldo, a South African Carpenter bee 

 (Xylocopa hottentota Smith), the tarsi of all three pairs of legs bearing the 

 pollinia of some Asclepiad flower. Mr. Hamilton Druce, a book he had lately 

 come across entitled " The indigenous insects of the region of Petersburg," by 

 John Cederhielm, published at Leipzig in 1798. The Eev. F. D. Morice, a 

 specimen of true Sirex juvencus, $ , F., from Wakefield in Yorkshire ; also a 

 series of photo-micrographs to illustrate specific characters in the $ ovipositors 

 or "saws" of various Cimbicids. Mr. A. Bacot, a series of lantern slides 

 showing outline camera drawings of preparations of the anal fins or paddles of 



