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lived successively at various places within easy reach of his business 

 (Reigate, Wandsworth, Bromley), and in the latter year he settled 

 finally at Woking. His short holidays were generally spent somewhere 

 on the South Coast ; once or twice only did he cross the water, to the 

 Channel Islands, or the coast of Britanny. As a yoiing man he was 

 active and even athletic, showing more than average proficiency in 

 cricket, skating, &c. He was also fond of shooting, bvit sold his 

 favourite gim in order to supply its place with a good microscope ! 

 Even when no longer young he enjoyed and could hold his own in a 

 smart i-ally at lawoi-tennis, but some years ago a sharp attack of illness 

 made it necessary for him to abstain from all violent exertions, and at 

 last from anything more fatiguing than a moderate walk. The actual 

 cause of his death was probably influenza, which attacked him in 

 March last year, but the case was complicated with Itmg-mischief, and 

 his strength had for some time before been evidently, though very 

 gradually, failing. At the last there was extreme weakness, but 

 happily no pain whatever, and his interest in scientific matters was 

 keen and bright up to the very end. 



He became a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1865, served 

 as Treasurer from 1880 to 1890, and was a Vice-President in no less 

 than five sessions, viz., in 1874, 1899, 1901, 1906, and 1907. Though 

 he never actually held the Presidency, it is scarcely a secret that he 

 would more than once have been elected to it unanimously, if he could 

 have been persuaded to accept a post, whose duties he felt imequal 

 (physically) to discharge as completely as he would have wished. He 

 entered the Linnean Society in 1869, and about that time contributed 

 at least three Papers to its Journal. Long after, in 1890, he published 

 in the same Jottrnal an exceedingly carefvil and interesting paper on 

 the Tongues, &c., of Bees, with beautiful illustrations, drawn by his 

 brother, Mr. Gr. S. Saunders, from microscopic preparations made by 

 Mr. Enock. 



His election in 1902 to the honour — so rarely bestowed on an 

 entomologist merely as such — of Fellowship in the Royal Society was 

 not only highly gratifying to himself and his personal friends, but to 

 all who saw in it a recognition of Systematic Entomology, treated as 

 Saunders treated it as no mere idle dilettantism, but a genuine branch 

 of Science. 



The accompanying portrait is reproduced from a photograph taken 

 several years ago and given by Saunders to the present writer. 



M. 



