THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



but it is impossible to reproduce all of these with the present sub- 

 scription list. 



The last meeting of the Entomological Club was held on Decem- 

 ber 8th, 1908, at 58 J{ensington Mansions, S.W., when Mr. H. St. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe was the host. The members and visitors were received 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Donisthorpe, and, after an adjournment for the 

 inspection of the ants' nests on which Mr. Donisthorpe is experimenting, 

 supper was served at 8 p.m.. Dr. F. Dixey, Dr. E. Joy, Rev. P. Morice, 

 Messrs. R. Adkin, E. C. Bedwell, H. Rowland-Brown, J, E. Collin, 

 H. Dollman, H. Willoughby-Ellis, E. E. Green, A. H. Jones, W. J. 

 Kaye, W. E, Sharp, R. South, J. W. Tutt, and G. H. Verrall, being 

 among the members and friends present. A most enjoyable evening 

 was spent, the company mostly dispersing about 11 p.m. 



OBITUARY. 



John Adolphus Clark, M.P.S., L.D.S., F.E.S. 



(By two of his oldest Friends.) 

 On December 16th, 1908, there passed from amongst us another 

 of those links with the older school of practical entomologists, whose 

 number has decreased so rapidly of late. 



Born at Aldermanbury, in the City of London, November 16th, 

 1842, Mr. Clark's family removed, when he was but eighteen months 

 old, to Homerton, at that time famous for its rose gardens. At a 

 very early age he developed the love of Nature, which was one of the 

 marked characteristics of his after life, for, at six years of age, when 

 Homerton was very different from the locality which we know by the 

 name now, he was already a collector. This must have been one of 

 the centres of his activities for some years, for his beautiful series of 

 Eucnemidophorm rhododactyla was, he used to assure his visitors, much 

 to their surprise, entirely from the gardens there. 



Brought up as he was, before bricks and mortar had defaced the 

 county on the east side of London, he had full opportunity to examine 

 and record the now vanished fauna of the district. "I have collected 

 with him all over Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Clapton, in fields 

 and lanes, which are now covered with houses, and in Epping Forest, 

 in the morning and late in the evening," writes one of his old friends, 

 who in those early days was his companion and co-collector. 



Later on he commenced business as a Pharmaceutical Chemist, in 

 the Broadway, London Fields, and carried it on successfully, and with 

 the hearty good-will of that somewhat difficult and always pugnacious 

 neighbourhood, for nearly 40 years. Retiring in 1896 his friends 

 rejoiced in his well-earned rest, if his still ceaseless activity in the 

 pursuit of Natural History could be called rest. 



To those who knew him — and who amongst the entomologists of 

 London, at least, did not know him ? — he was always a Avarm, kind 

 friend, generous, helpful, hospitable, and had' a way of making his 

 visitors feel that their visits were never so frequent as he would have 

 wished. 



Mr. Clark may be fairly described as one of the originators of 

 local entomological societies. He joined the Haggerston Society 

 almost from its commencement, when its headquarters were at the 

 " Brownlow Arms," Hag-gerston and followed its fortunes until the 



