Iliurij lioivUmd-Biown, M.A., F.E.S., whose decease was briuHy aunoiiiiced 

 ill the last imuiber of this Magazine, was born at Pinner, Middlesex, on 

 May 19th, 1865. In a very charming little book, " Myself when Young," by 

 his sister, the well-luiowu novelist writing under the pseudonym of "Rowland 

 Grey," we find many allusions to the Leen interest in Nature talieii by herself 

 and her brother when both were quite young children, and as a boy of twelve 

 years lJowland-J3iowii was already a keen collector of Lepidoptera. He was 

 educated at Kugby, where he came under the influence of the eminent 

 Entomologist the Kev. F. D. Morice, at that time a master in that famous 

 school; from Rugby he proceeded to University College, Oxford, afterwards 

 studying for the Ear, and becoming in due course a member of his father's 

 profession. 



As an Entomologist, his attention was for the most past directed to the 

 Lepidoptera of the Western Palaearctic Region, including those of our own 

 islands ; and in his knowledge of the butterflies of Central and Western 

 Europe, and especially those of France, he was certainly without an equal in 

 our country. For many years together, up to the outbreak of the Great War, 

 a portion of every summer was devoted by him to an excursion to some 

 favoured Continental locality, on one occasion even to North Sweden and Lap- 

 land ; and the detailed and brightly written narratives of these expeditious 

 form quite a leading feature in the pages of one of our contemporaries, for as 

 far as we are aware, he made no direct contribution to this Magazine. His 

 monograph of Coenonymplia iyphon in M. Oberthur's " Lepidopterologie Com- 

 paree" is an Entomological classic, as is also the exhaustive study of the races 

 of that most interesting butterfly Colias croceus (edtisa), his last piece of serious 

 work, which appeared quite recently in the " Entomologist." It was also his 

 intention, a few years ago, to revise thoroughly and bring up to date that 

 excellent and most useful little book "European Butterflies," by the late 

 Mr. W. F. Kane, which has gone out of print, and considerable progress was 

 made with this task, as well as with an entirely original work on the subject, 

 but unfortunately the outbreak of war prevented the completion of these 

 undertakings. 



It is probable, however, that to the majority' of Entomologists Rowland- 

 Brown's name is best known in connection with his greatly appreciated services 

 to the Entomological Society of London. He was elected a Fellow in 1887, 

 and twelve years later, when the present writer was compelled by an appoint- 

 ment abroad to resign the Secretaryship at very short notice and a successor 

 was urgently needed, Rowland-Brown stepped into the breach and held the 

 ofiice without intermission until 1910. His eminent qualifications for this 

 responsible duty were at once obvious, and few, if any. Secretaries of the 

 Society have enjoyed so large an amount of confidence and general popularity. 

 The writer of this notice, who once more shared the office with him from 1905 

 onwards, recalls with the utmost pleasure his unfailing geniality, resource, and 

 readiness in dealing with the many complications which inevitably arise in the 

 conduct of the affairs of a Society of this kind. Truly he was the beau-ideal 

 of a colleague. 



