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insects and asking their co-operation. Owing to his removal to Eastern Canada in 1888, this 

 work was relinquished before any report was issued. Several important papers have appeared 

 from his pen in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, TJte Canadian Sntnmologisf, 

 The Ottawa Naturalist and The Nautilus. Many new species have been discovered by this 

 energetic worker, and several have been named after him. Among insects, species which have 

 been mentioned in The Canadian Entomologist are Melitcea Tuylori, W. H. Edwards ; Anthdia 

 T'lylorata, Hulsfc ; Ichneumon Taylori, Harrington ; Trichiosonia Taylori, Provancher ; and 

 Adranes Taylori, Wickham All orders of insecfs, however, have been studied, and 

 several other species in different orders from those named, have been or are being named after 

 the subject of our sketch. Some of Mr. Taylor's best work has been done on the MoUusca, and 

 naturally several new species have been described after him. Names which occur to us are 

 Fri^tolonm Taylori, Pilsbury ; Modiolaria Taylori, Dall ; and Phyllaphysia Taylori, Dall. In 

 addition, a new species of sponge, Leucandra Tayhri, Lambe, may be mentioned. 



Enormous and valuable collections of British Columbian specimens of various l^inds have 

 been made and generously sent off to collectors in all parts of the world. Mr. Taylor possesses 

 himself the largest private collection of Limpets (Patellidas and allied families) in the world, 

 also the most complete collection of Unioidse in Canada, and one of the largest general 

 collections of land and water shells (7,000 species) in Canada 



A constant collector of insects, Mr. Taylor has also amas=icd valuable collections of insects 

 in several orders, notwithstanding the fact that he has made a practice continually of giving 

 away to specialists any specimens from his own collection, which were required for study His 

 cabinets contain a wealth of representative specimens of inestimable value to the many beginners 

 who have been stirred up by his enthusiasm to investigate the insect fauna of our Pacific Coast 

 Province. At the present time he is devoting all his energies to the working up of the North 

 American Geometridte, paying particular attention to northern species which are likely to occur 

 in Canada. Since the death of the Rev. Geo. D. Hulst, this important family of moths had been 

 somewhat neglected by American students. Mr. Taylor's methods of work are systematic and 

 thorough. First reviewing all the literature of the subject under consideration, he then strives 

 to acquire types for study'from'the original localities, compares these with the descriptions and 

 then with extensive series of specimens from as wide an area as possible. Mr. Taylor is an 

 indefatigable collector and a generous correspondent, who considers no trouble too much to 

 make observations or secure specimens when speciallj' desired. In his parish work he is 

 painstaking, gentle and self-denying — always ready to help. A clear and forcible preacher 

 and an earnest liver who shows in his works that relioion is not an accessory of every day life 

 but an integral part of it. J. F. 



PROFESSOR AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE GROTE. 



It is with profound regret that we record the death of our greatly esteemed friend, 

 Professor Augustus Radclifie Grote, A.M., which took place at Ilildesheim, Germany, on 

 Saturday, September 12th, where he had been living for the last nine years, after a residence 

 at Bremen of a somewhat longer period. Not long before his departure from the United 

 States for Germany he sent to Dr. William Saunders, at that time editor of the " Canadian 

 Entomologist," some particulars of his early life, which will, no doubt, be of much interest now. 



He was born at Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool, England, on the 7th of February, 1841. 

 On his mother's side his grandfather was the late Augustus Radcliffe, a partner in the house of 

 Sir Joseph Bailey, a Welsh iron-master ; his mother was a cousin of Mrs. G. M. Boswell, wife 

 of the well-known Judge Boswell, of Cobourg, Ontario, and of the Radcliffes, who formerly 

 lived in this Province, and in the Isle of Wight, England ; he was a first cousin also of Ethel 

 Duncan, the wife of the late Professor George Romanes, F.R.S. 



