24i0 [March, 1885. 



For many years he was Kecording Secretary for Section E (Greography) at the 

 meetings of the British Association. In 1859 he joined the Entomological Society 

 of London, but subsequently resigned, and was re-elected in IS*/ 6. In 1874 he be- 

 came a Fellow of the Zoological Society. 



Mr. Eye's attention to British Coleoptera naturally caused an acquaintanceship 

 with Mr. G-. R. Waterhouse, formerly of the British Museum, who was then de- 

 voting all his spare time to the same subject. This culminated in his becoming 

 engaged to Mr. Waterhouse's second daughter, whom he married in 1867, and who, 

 with four children (the oldest under 17), survives to deplore his loss. 



Mr. Eye was a good classical scholar, a good modern linguist, and generally of 

 extremely versatile talent. In society he was known (and sometimes feared) for his 

 ready and often caustic wit. From early youth he was passionately devoted to 

 aquatic sports, and was a frequent ^rize winner in amateur racing, matches on the 

 Thames. On Saturday, July 30th, 1881, he suffered frightful injuries from his 

 boat being crushed by a steamer ; these crippled him for many months, yet in 

 time he made a complete recovery, and even resumed his favourite pastime with all 

 the ardour of youth, and at over 50 was still winning prizes. Little more than ten 

 days before his death he complained of feeling unwell, which he attributed to a cold ; 

 but almost immediately smallpox of the worst type declared itself. He was removed 

 to hospital. Almost from the beginning the case was desperate, and, although at 

 one time there was a small gleam of hope, it soon subsided, and he passed rapidly 

 away. How he contracted the disease no one knows, but it was believed to be pre- 

 valent amongst the floating population on the Thames. 



It is pretty generally known that Mr. Eye's eldest sister is the lady whose name 

 is so intimately associated with female emigi'ation to Canada. His father and 

 mother predeceased him,.his youngest brother died barely two months ago, and there 

 now remain an only surviving brother (who continues his father's practice) and 

 three sisters. 



Major F. J. Sidney Parry, F.L.S., of Onslow Square, died at his daughter's 

 residence. The Warren, Bushey Heath, on February 1st, aged 74. In him the En- 

 tomological Society of London has lost one of its oldest members, he having been 

 elected in 1840, and he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1842. He was 

 born October 28th, 1810. In 1831 he joined the 17th Lancers as a cornet, but 

 retired from the army in 1835. His earliest published paper appears to have been 

 on a new genus of LucanidcB from New Zealand, communicated to the Entomological 

 Society in 1843, and although he published on other families of Coleoptera, it was 

 with the LucanidcB that he became more especially associated, and on them he pub- 

 lished numerous memoirs, the most important (but by no means the last) in the 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, for 1870, to which he appended a revised List, enumerating 357 

 species. During the whole of his entomological career he had been associated by 

 fi-iendship with Prof. Westwood, who supplemented and illustrated several of his 

 papers. At one time he had a general collection of Coleoptera, but latterly it was 

 limited to Lucanidce and Cetoniidce, the former being very valuable, and probably 

 the most complete in existence. 



