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 H. GUARD KNAGGS, M.D. 



Dr. HENRY GUARD KNAGGS died, after a long and 

 painful illness, at his residence at Folkestone on January 16th, 

 and was interred at Highgate Cemetery on the 28th. The son of 

 a medical man practising in the North of London, he was born in 

 High Street, Camden Town, on March 21st, 1832. After complet- 

 ing his education, and his training for the medical profession at 

 University College Hospital, he married early in life, and 

 succeeded to his father's practice in Kentish Town, where the 

 greater part of his life was passed, and where he was universally 

 esteemed as an able and skilful general practitioner. 



From an early age Dr. Knaggs took a great interest in Ento- 

 mology, and particularly in our native Macro-Lepidoptera, and his 

 characteristic energy and successful discrimination in the field 

 enabled him in a relatively short time to form one of the finest 

 collections of these insects in London. His hearty, generous and 

 jovial nature, so evident in almost every line that he wrote, and 

 his wide knowledge of the practical side of the subject, made him 

 one of the most popular of the Metropolitan Entomologists of his 

 time. His house during the early " sixties," when so much good 

 work was done, became an informal centre of meeting for many of 

 the best known collectors and observers of Lepidoptera, especiallv 

 for those resident in the North of London. 



In 1861 the "Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer" ceased to 

 exist, and the space for entomological notes and observations in the 

 only publication then available for the purpose, the " Zoologist," 

 was altogether inadequate in this energetic period of our Science. 

 The need of a periodical at a moderate price, exclusively devoted to 

 Entomology, was very generally recognised, and our Magazine 

 appeared for the first time in June, 1864, with a staff of five 

 Editors, only one of whom, the Rev. T. Blackburn, whose tenure of 



