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On relinquishing eominercial life more than two years ago, Mr. Beaumont 

 removed from London to the pretty village of Grosfield, in Essex, where he and his 

 estimable and devoted wife had made a charming home, and where tiiey hoped to 

 have spent a few more years together, in the quiet pursuits of country life. This 

 they had every reason to anticipate, as Mr. Beaumont had all his life been a strong, 

 active man, and it was only a few weeks ago (hat an apparently slight heart 

 trouble gave cause for uneasiness, but on the evening of the day already mentioned, 

 whilst actually sitting at the table working at his insects, he suddenly passed away. 

 Truly he died in harness. 



He was twice married, but lost his first wife many years ago, when the beautiful 

 Ohureh at Wilshaw, near Huddersfield, was erected to her memory. Hia second 

 wife survives him, and we are sure that the sympathy of all his Entomological and 

 other friends will go out to her in the heaviest of all blows wliich could have come 

 upon her. — G. T. P. 



Frederick Octavius Pickard- Cambridge, B.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., whose tragic 

 death took place at Wimbledon on February 9th last, at the age of forty-four, was 

 born at Warmwell, Dorset, where his father, a member of a well-known county 

 family, was Rector for many years. Having gi-aduated from Exeter College, Oxford, 

 whither he proceeded from Sherborne School, he held a private tutorship before his 

 Ordination, after which he served for a time as a Curate at Carlisle. Subsequently, 

 however, abandoning his profession, he resided near London, illustrating and 

 writing works on Natural History, and only shortly before his death he obtained an 

 appointment as Arachnologist in the British Museum. Fired some years ago, by the 

 enthusiasm of his uncle, the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, F.R.S., Frederick thenceforth 

 devoted himself specially to the study of the Arachnida, on which group his con- 

 tributions to Science have been very numerous and valuable. A keen, all-round 

 Naturalist, however, he paid some attention at various times to the Coleoptera (his 

 captures of Scyhalicus oblongiuscidus in Dorset being particularly noteworthy), 

 Lepidoptera and Neuroptera— to say nothing of Ornithology and Oology, and was 

 an excellent observer and collector, gifted, moreover, with exceptional ability with 

 both pencil and brush. A pleasant companion, with a strong vein of humour that 

 often found play in clever sketches, adding point to his amusing letters, the _ 

 subject of this notice, who was never married, will be sorely missed by his many 

 relatives and friends. — Eustace R. Bankes. 



The Rev. Francis Walker, D.D., F.L.S. — We regret to learn of the death of 

 this amiable Entomologist, which took place recently at his residence at Crickle- 

 wood. The only son of the late well-known Francis Walker, of the Natural History 

 Department of the old British Museum, he early devoted himself to the study of 

 insects, and especially to that of exotic butterflies, of which he formed a large collec- 

 tion. Although he wrote little, if anything, of serious scientific value, his notes on 

 the Entomology of Iceland, Palestine, and other countries that he visited at various 

 times, are vei'j pleasant and interesting. He was a Fellow of the Linnean and of 

 the Entomological Society, having joined the latter as long ago as 1870, and his 

 portly presence and genial address will be greatly missed from its meetings. 



