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father's family removed to Bradford in 1875, and there ihe remainder of his 

 life -was spent. Soon after taking up his residence there he, Avitli Mr. John 

 Firth and one or two other friends, established the Bradford Naturalists' 

 Soc-ietj, and from its establishment until his death, t'arter was always its 

 leading- spirit. He -was its tirst Secretary and afterwards its I'resident, ana at 

 the time of liis death -was again President-elect. He took almost as much 

 interest in the Yorkshire iS'aturalists' Union, of which he and the Avriter of this 

 Avere the oldest members. He frequently attended its excursions and Com- 

 inittee Meetings, and Avas rarely absent at the Annual Meetings of its Entomo- 

 lo"'ical Section, of Avhicli he had been President. He Avas present at the 

 Annual Meeting of the Union so lately as December 6th last, Avheu he exhibited 

 a fine and almost complete collection of the British Avasps. His first natural i« 



history AA'ork Avas in the Macro-lejjidoptera , in which he always took a keen "J 



interest, and he supplied considerable inlormation for the writer's "List of | 



Yorksliire Lepiilyptera'' Later he took up the Coltoptera, and it was in this ' 



order that some of his best Avork AA'as done. The Hyme)toyU'ru, Neitroptera, 

 and Orthopieiut ot Yorkshire also claimed his attention, the " Victoria History 

 of Yorkshire" being indebted to him for numerous records. Many of his 

 recoids and notes, too, appeared in the various Natural History journals, 

 including this Magazine. For twenty years also he conducted a natural 

 history column in the local newspaper, " The Bradford Weekly Telegraph."' 



He had been a Fellow of tbe Entomological Society of London since 1900. 

 Of a quiet and retiring disposition he made no push in the entomological Avorld, 

 but it Avas a positive pleasure to him to assist beginners in every Avay he 

 coukl, and to rejoice in their after success. He possessed, indeed, the respect 

 and esteem of every naturalist with Avhom he came in contact. 



His funeral Avas on December 20th at Heaton Cemeter}', Bradford. 



—a. T. p. 



Tjik South London Entomoi,ogic..vl and Natuuai. Ui^touy Socikty: 

 November 2oth, 1920. — Mr. K. G. Blair, B.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. G. D. Morison, 100 Fielding Road, \V. 4; Mr. 1). Watson, li> Park 

 Place, Graveseud ; Mr. G. W. Y'oung, F.G.S., 20 Gr.mge lload, Barnes ; 

 Mr. W. West, 29 Cranfield Road, Brockley ; Mr. F. II. and Mr. II. M. Simms, 

 The Forlands, Stourbridge, Avere elected members. 



A short seiiesoiLeptomcris{AcidaUa)imviorata{indoHno{IiItaffa(Jes)(/lobit- 

 luriae from Sussex Avere presented to the Society's collection by Mr. F. G. S. 

 Bramwell, of Brighton, and were exhibited. 



Annual E.vhihition. — Lord Rothschild exhibited the series of 1277 speci- 

 mens of Abraxas grosmlariata L. from the Britisii collection of the Tring 

 Museum; they consisted of the series from the Bright and Gibb collection, 

 and those collected by himself ; the larger number of the more extreme 

 varieties have been bred by tbe Rev. Gilbert Itaynor. Mr. C. H. Williams 

 a drawer of varieties of the same species. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a large number 

 of extra-European forms of well-known species or species closely allied to 

 them in the European area. Mr. Leeds, long series of aberrations of British 



