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liiiii llie iireatest satisfaction, as lie afterwards confessed it was an lionoiir 

 wliicli l)t' had for nianv years been hoping to attain at some time. The election 

 was immensely popular with all sections of the Union, as his long and successful 

 work, with the genial humour of his personality, had gained for him the 

 higliest respect and esteem of the membors. 



iMost of the earlier part of his life was spent in Lancashire, but he removed 

 to Doncaster in 1889, where he settled down for the remainder of his career. 

 His influence in the scientific and literary life of the town made itself felt at 

 once, and he soon became its leading spirit, the establishment of its now 

 good and useful Municipal Museum eventually resulting through his agency. 

 He also at once put new life and vigour into the local Natural History and 

 Scientific Society, in Avhich he and his wife during the whole of their lives 

 the:e took the greatest active interest. Mrs. Corbett was a daughter of the late 

 Mr. S. J. Capper, the noted Liverpool Lepidopterist, and the Corbetts became 

 truly a naturalist family. Mrs. Corbett was almost as keen on scientific work 

 as was her husband ; she went on collecting excursions with him, and assisted 

 him in every possible way. Her death some three years ago, followed by that 

 of tiieir only son, Captain H. Vincent Corbett, who was killed in the war later 

 in the same year, was naturally a terrible blow to him. Captain Corbett had 

 already become a very promising Coleopterist and Hemipterist, and we believe 

 one of his sisters also takes great interest in Entomology. JDr. Corbett was at 

 first interested in the Lepidoptera, especially in the Micros, in which he did most 

 excellent work, adding Lifliocolletis cerasicole'lla, H.-S., to the British List from 

 Doncaster captures in 189o ; whilst his additions to the List of Yorkshire 

 Lepidoptera were extensive, notwithstanding that he resided iu the same 

 district which that keen Microlepidopterist, the late Mr. William Warren, had 

 previously worked for many years. Mr. Warren had contributed largely to the 

 hrst edition of the List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera iu the Doncaster species, but 

 later, as will be seen from the Supplement to the List, Dr. Corbett was 

 relatively not behind him. Later Dr. Corbett became fascinated with the 

 Colcuptcra in which he also did much valuable work, and along with that order 

 he gained a good knowledge of the Hymenoptera&n^ Neuroptera of his district, 

 as a reference to these orders in the '' Victoria History of Y^orkshire," and his 

 notes in the Natural History journals testify. 



He regularly attended the excursions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' L'niou, 

 when he was always an enthusiastic collector ; and he rarely missed a meeting 

 of the Entomological Section of the Union, being present in excellent form at 

 the last one on October oOth. He had been both its Secretarj' and its 

 President. He was a Fellow of the Linnean and Entomological Societies of 

 London, and occasionally attended the meetings of both. 



The fiuieral took place at Doncaster Cemetery on Januar}^ 8th, the impres- 

 sive service being conducted by Archdeacon Sandford, and where the various 

 Societies with which he had been connected were repi'esented by many of his 

 friends. Om' sincerest sympathy is with the three daughters who have so 

 rapidly been bereaved of both parents and brother. — G. T. P. 



JoJm William Carter. — By the death of Mr. J. W. Carter, at the age 

 of 67, which took place on December loth, Yorkshire has lost another 

 enthusiastic Entomologist. Bern at Bradley, near Huddersfield, he, with his 



