204 THE kntomologist's record. 



Preliininani ( ataLoiiae of the Arctiidae of Tetnperati' Xorth America, A 

 Revision ot the Lejiidofitennis f'\i)nily >iatuttiiidae, and commenced his 

 various contributions to a knowledge of the Family Xvctuidae in which 

 he later on became a reco,t(nised authority. In 1889 he hecanif 

 Professor of Entomology at Rutger's College and entomologist to the 

 New Jersey Agricultural l^xperiraental Station at New Brunswick, 

 positions which he held to the time of his death. Of 

 course much of his work was on the lines of official economic 

 research and the preparation of reports, bulletins, etc., of which many 

 admirable issues were given forth. Still he found time to work hard 

 at his favourite group the X(ictiiid(c, to set forth some startling views 

 on the homologies of the mouth organs in his ( 'ontribntion tuu-ard o 

 l.-nowledge of' the Mouth Parts of the Diptera, to take an intense 

 practical interests in the question of the extermination of the 

 mosquito, concerning which his suggestions of ditching the marshes, 

 has proved eminently successful, and also to write articles and books 

 on the popular side of the study of insects. He was a strong supporter 

 of Societies, fully recognising that they were indispensable both for 

 keeping up the public interest in Entomology and for bringing students 

 of insect economy together for their mutual benefit and advancement. 

 His views on this were practical, for he was not only a member, but 

 an active member, in all the societies he could get in touch with, at 

 one tnue or another serving as president, secretary, or editor of 

 transactions and proceedings, or giving his services to read papers and 

 to lecture. There is a portrait of him in the Kiit. Xeirs for May to 

 wliich magazine we are indebted for the above details. — H.J.T. 



Robert Walter Campbell Shelford. 



By the death, on June 22nd, of Robert Walter Campbell Shelford, 

 the science of entomology has lost an indefatigable worker. It will 

 be long before his place can be filled. Although his mature work was 

 chiefly concerned with the Hlattltlae, Shelford's interests as a naturalist 

 covered an unusually wide field. He had written upon anthropo 

 logical subjects, flying snakes, and insect mimicry, and at the time of 

 his death was preparing a natural history of Borneo. 



Shelford was born at Singapore, August 8rd, 1872. He was educated 

 at King's College School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he 

 took a second class in both parts of the Natural Science Tripos. In 

 1895 he became a demonstrator in biology under Prof.'' L. C Miall 

 at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. In 1897 he became Curator of Rajah 

 lU'ooke's Sarawak Museum at Kuching, a position which he retained 

 for seven years. The excellent work he did in the museum and his 

 bright, energetic ])ers()nality will long l)e remembered by the iMiropean 

 colony. After travelling for seveial iiionths in the Malay Archipelago 

 Shelford came to Oxford in the autunni o( 1905 as .Assistant Curatoi' 

 of the Hope Collections. Heat once began his important study of the 

 Ulattidae, in the course of which he worked out all the important 

 European collections and wrote a long series of admirable memoirs. 



Shelford had, as a child, contracted tubercular disease of the hip- 

 joint as the result of a fall downstairs. A fall from a rickshaw in 

 Jiorneo was followed by a reappearance of the old trouble, but he 

 made a good recovery. An accidental slip caused the disease to break 

 out again in April, 1909, and led to the terrible suffering of his last 

 illness. — E. H. Poulton. 



