1912.] 



(ibituaiiu. 



Frank Wray Terry. — Wo regret to have to chronicle the death of Frank 

 Wray Terry, which took place at New York on November 8th. He was born at 

 Battersea on February 14th, 1877. From his earliest days he took an interest 

 in Natural History, and used freqvxently to visit the Natural History Museum, 

 and at home kept many strange pets. In 1892 he was appointed to the Insect 

 Eoom in the Miiseum, and worked undei' Mr. Watorhouse. He soon became 

 very efficient in preparing- specimens for exhibition, and some of the best 

 mounts in the insect gallery are the work of his hands. He gained a very good 

 general knowl(>dge of insects, and by no means neglected otlier objects of 

 Natiiral History. In 1903 an opportvuiity occui-red for him to go with the late 

 Gr. W. Kirkaldy to undertake entomological research work in connection with 

 the Sugar Planters' Association in the Hawaiian Islands. Here he did much 

 useful work in tracing o\it the life histories of various pests, a task for which 

 he was peculiarly fitted. After eight years' absence he returned home on 

 leave. He was not in good health, as he was suffering from an ulcerated 

 stomach, but lu^ was anxioiis to return to his duties, and it was on his way out 

 that he became very ill, and was obliged to stay with a relative in New York, 

 his death occurring a few days after liis arrival there. He was buried at 

 Oxford. He became a Fellow of the Enttmiological Society in 1910. He was 

 unmarried. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society .- Meeting held at 

 Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, November 20th, 1911. — Dr. John 

 Cotton in the Chair. 



Dr. F. P. Tinne read a paper on " The Application of the Lumi^re Process 

 of Colour Photography to Entomology," and in the course of a most interesting 

 address, oxliibited a number of colour-iiortraits of Lepidoptera in their native 

 haunts, as well as pictures of places he had visited when in the pursuit of insects. 

 It is quite evident that there is a great future for this class of work as soon as 

 coloured prints can be taken direct from the negatives. Mr. Robert Tait, Jr., 

 exhiliited a fine lot of insects from Braeniar, the results of his siunmer holiday, 

 whicli was spent in tliat locality. These included a very fine series of Plusia 

 interrogationis, Dasydia ob/uscaria, Coenonympha tiphon, Zygxna exuUms, Nemeo- 

 phila plantaginis, and var. hospita, the last being obtained as a partial second 

 brood in October. Varied, but smaller, series of the following were also shown : — 

 Cidaria populata, C. immanata , Coremia vitmitata, Larentia cxsiata, and Fidonia 

 brunneata. Mr. Tait further contributed an interesting account of his holiday, 

 with remarks upon the variation, etc., of the insects captured. Mr. Wm. Mans- 

 bridge, a series of Polia rhi, taken in the Huddersfield district on .Vugust Bank 

 Holiday, comprising the melanic forms for whicli tliat neighbourhood is famous. 

 — OscAK Whittakek and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Secretaries. 



