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conspicuous, but his kindly intelligence was very noticeable. He visited Mr. and Mrs. 

 x^nderson at their Oakland residence while I was living in Hamilton ; so I had the pleasure of 

 meeting him upon several occasions and found him to be a very pleasant and profitable guide 

 upon a collecting excursion, He was in the habit of observing every branch of Entomology 

 and had a general knowledge of its various departments. He called my attention to two 

 species of Ladybirds which were rare with him and which I had not observied before, Coccindla 

 transversoguttata. Fab., and moidicola, Muls. They were at the time in great numbers upon 

 Mr. Anderson's strawberry beds, but I have never seen them in any numbers since. It seems 

 to be a habit with ladybirds for one species to appear in profusion during one season, to the 

 almost complete exclusion of all the others. Then another species will be equally plentiful 

 another season, but never the same species in unusual numbers for two years in succession, 

 which seems to be rather odd and requires some explanation. I have seen this occur with 

 species that are by no means rare, such as trifasaiata, hipwictata, pnUata and 15-punctata. 

 On one occasion, when I was visiting in the country for a few days, where they were drawing 

 in peas, I saw the barn floor covered half-an-inch deep with a living mass of H. paixnthesis, 

 and hardly another species was to be found amongst them. I have observed another curious 

 habit of some species, in their larvje gathering together in clusters on the trunks of trees to 

 pupate. I have come upon many such clusters in different years, and they were mostly on 

 Basswood trees. 



During the time of that visit by Mr. Angus, Thistle butterflies were unusually plentiful 

 about Hamilton, and he took great pleasure in looking at them as they swarmed over the 

 clover fields, and expressed the opinion that he had never before seen that butterfly so 

 large in size and rosy in color. It was about the time that he made over his Entomological 

 Collection to the New York Museum, and as a natural result, began' to feel less interest in 

 Entomology, so to occupy his time he commenced collecting Indian relics, which he thought 

 would be more suitable for him at his time of life. 



REV. GEORGE WILLIAM TAYLOR, F.R.S.C, F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



The readers of our Report and of The Canadiati Entomologist will be pleased, we feel sure, to 

 see the good portrait given herewith of the Rev. G. W. Taylor, who during the last twenty years 

 has done such excellent work in almost all lines of natural history in British Columbia. Born in 

 1854, in Derby, England, where he received his education, Mr. Taylor, after leaving school, 

 studied mining engineering, but in 1882 came out to Canada and went direct to British 

 Columbia, where he had relatives. Although engaged for a short time in farming, he began 

 almost immediately to study for the ministry and in 1884 was ordained by the Bishop of 

 Columbia Since that time, with the exception of two years, from September, 1888, to August, 

 1890, which he spent in Ottawa as Rector of the joint parishes of St. Barnabas and Holy Trinity, 

 he has been in charge of parishes in British Columbia, and at the present time is Rector of the 

 Anglican Church at Wellington, B.C. From boyhood Mr, Taylor has been keenly interested 

 in natural science and has from hi? enthusiasm and industry accoraplishe'd much, not only in 

 doing original work of importance in several lines of zoology and palieontology, but in con- 

 stantly encouraging and assisting others with whom he came in contact to take up and enjoy 

 with him his favorite studies. Mr. Taylor has for many years been a Fellow of the Entomo- 

 logical and Zoological Societies of London, England, and in 188 1 was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his eminent services to science, particularly in con- 

 nection with his investioations in Canadian Conchology and Entomology. In 1887, Mr. Taylor 

 was appointed Honorary Provincial Entomologist of the British Columbia Department of 

 Agriculture and sent out a circular letter to farmers drawing their attention to the losses due to 



