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Suffice it to say, that he also paid the heavy expenses incident on the acquirement 

 of a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1885, and it was hoped that this important 

 event in tlie history of the Society would have taken place during his Presidency 

 (1883-84), but it was not to be. Of a truth the Entomological Society of London 

 has reason to be deeply grateful to the memory of J. W. Dunning. 



In private life he was reserved, but in social intercourse was always genial 

 and humorous, and his short speeches on festive and other occasions were marked 

 not only by the wide knowledge exhibited, but also by the polished manner of 

 their delivery. — R. McL. 



Capt. Edward Yerbury Watson, F.Z.S., cfc. — -News has been received by tele- 

 gram of the death of this gallant officer and accomplished entomologist on November 

 8th, through a shot fired into camp when with the Tirah field force on the Indian 

 frontier expedition. He at the time held the position of Deputy Assistant Com- 

 missary General on the Indian Staff Corps. He joined the North Lancashire 

 regiment as Lieutenant in 1884. As an entomologist he turned his attention 

 especially to the Hesperiidce, and in 1893, during a furlough, he published in the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. an attempt at a generic subdivision of that most difficult Family, 

 which will probably form the groundwork for future students. And he was also the 

 author of several other papers, published here and in India. His connection with 

 the Entomological Society of London commenced in 1891. 



Morris Young, F.E.S., died somewhat suddenly so long ago as February 26th 

 last, but his death has only recently been generally known. His age was 76. Of 

 his early history we know little, but for many years he was a schoolmaster at Paisley. 

 He published little, and mostly only short notes. What may have been the first of 

 these appeared in the " Intelligencer," vol. i (1856), on a Lepidopterous subject, but 

 it was as a Coleopterist that he was best and widely known, and he added several 

 species of beetles to the British List. Yet he was more than a Coleopterist, more 

 than an Entomologist, for his knowledge in all branches of Natural History was 

 most extensive. In 1870 the Paisley Free Museum was opened, and Morris Young 

 was asked to be Curator. He accepted the position, although a salary of only £90 

 per annum was attached to it, and although it entailed the abandonment of his 

 previous occupation. But he was a man of simple tastes and few wants, and the 

 position was one after his own heart. He presented his very extensive entomological 

 collection to the Museum, and devoted all his energies to his duties, his skill as a 

 taxidermist saving the institution much expense in preparations. Some yeai's ago 

 he came into some money, and he then helped the Museum financially, and we un- 

 derstand he bequeathed to it the sum of £500 (the interest to be applied towards 

 extending the Entomological collections), and also all his books, &c. He was a 

 bachelor, and shy and reserved amongst strangers, but at the Museum and in company 

 with men of kindi'ed tastes all this was changed, and one saw only the enthusiastic 

 naturalist full of his subject. His loss will be severely felt amongst the none too 

 numerous band of Scottish entomologists. He joined the Entomological Society of 

 London in 1886. 



The Rev. Peler Bellinger Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., for 44 years Vicar of Rowiugton 

 Warwickshire, died on November 1st, aged 82. He was an accomplished geologist, 

 and one of the earliest to take up the study of British Fossil Insects, to which 

 subject he devoted much of a long life. His published papers are very numerous, a 

 large number of them having appeared in the reports of various Midland Natural 

 History Societies. From a more general point of view he was perhaps best known 



