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He was elected an honorary member of this Club on February IGth, 1887, at a 

 meetinjj held at Mr. Grut's, and a full member at the next meeting on 

 April 27th, 1887 (the other members then being Dr. H. Francis, Dr. Lowne 

 Dr. Thudichum, and Messrs. Grut and S. Stevens), and immediately 

 proceeded to make the meeting at which he was host a rallying point for students 

 of all branches of Entomology. Many a life-long friendship has originated at 

 the HoUiorn Restaurant where his meetings were held, and many a wrongly 

 formed impression of a correspondent has been rectified, while all those who 

 have had the pleasure of attending on these occasions, will ever remember the 

 kindly generosity and the unfailing good nature and geniality of their host. It 

 was mainly owing to his efforts that this old-established Club was prevented from 

 dying out. 



His was a well-known figure at the meetings of the Entomological Society 

 of London, which he joined in 1866 ; always taking a keen interest in its affairs, 

 he acted as Honorary Secretary for a short period, served many times upon the 

 Council, and in 1899 had the honour conferred upon him of election as its 

 President. His first entomological note was upon the occurrence of Diasemia 

 ramhurialis, Dup., at Lewes, published in this Magazine for 1866, and two years 

 after, in the same Magazine, he published his first article upon Diptera (Notes 

 on some Bi-itish SyriM). Though never a voluminous writer, he contributed 

 many short notes for the Magazines, including " Notes on the British Tipididse," 

 in 1886-87. and valuable " Tables of the British species of Dolichopodidw," in 

 1904-5. Bvit the chief object of all his collecting and studies had always been 

 the production of a standard work on " British Flies," by which he hoped to 

 place the knowledge of the British Diptera upon a firm footing. Unfortunately, 

 only two volumes have appeared from his pen, one on the Platypezidse, Pipunculidse 

 and Syrphidse, and one on the families Stratiomyidse to Cyrtidse inclusive, but 

 these will long remain monuments to his memory. 



Though not a great traveller, he visited most of the capitals of Europe to 

 examine collections and to make the acqvTaintance of fellow- workers abroad, but 

 he never collected outside the British Isles, and his only publications on foreign 

 Diptera were on the Diptera of Kerguelen Island (Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 1879), 

 and on the Syrphidse collected near Aden by Col. J. W. Yerbvuy (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1898). He was an excellent field naturalist and collector in his best 

 days, never disheai-tened, and ajjparently with no knowledge of what fatigue 

 meant ; b^it, for the last few years, his more intimate friends had noticed, with 

 misgivings, his inability to iindergo exertion, the failing power in the stroke of 

 his net, and his lack of application, all probably the resiilts of the condition of 

 his heart, which was also largely responsible for bringing on the illness from 

 which he died. 



He was a great believer in Lord Eosebery's maxim, that it is the duty of 

 every good citizen to take an active part in public affairs, and no man ever lived 

 up to this creed more fully than he did. There was scarcely an office to which 

 his fellow-townsmen could elect liim that ho did not fill at one time or another, 

 with ci'edit to himself and with advantage to the comm\iuity. In addition, lie 

 gave a lai'ge amoiuit of his valuable time to the affaire of the county as Justice 



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