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through life and described Bate’s collection from the Amazon, 
the collection for the Biologia Centrali Americana, collections 
from Japan and other smaller collections. His biggest single 
work was “On Aquatic Carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae” 
(1882), and it is of interest as he carried out a synthetic system 
of nomenclature on lines laid down in his pamphlet, “The 
Object and Method of Zoological Nomenclature” (1873). The 
work by which he is most generally known to entomologists is 
his “Insecta” in the Cambridge Natural History, one of the 
most readable and lucid textbooks on entomology. 
But zoologists will always remember him for the time and 
labor he devoted to the Zoological Record. He acted as recorder 
of insects from 1885, and as editor of the work as well as 
recorder of insects from 1892 until a few weeks before his 
death. To many men this work alone would have been a life’s 
work, and one wonders how he found time for so much besides. 
He had great powers of concentration, never wasted time, and 
he could turn from one subject to another without loss of time 
picking up the threads of his work. In zoological matters his 
judgment was sound, and he never allowed himself to be car- 
ried away by the various controversial subjects that have divided 
biologists during the last sixty years. While he appreciated the 
good in many of the theories brought forward, his keen mind 
could always see their limitations. 
Sharp was deeply interested in island life and it is this aspect 
of his work which is of greatest interest to the members of 
this Society. He wrote a number of papers on the Coleoptera 
of New Zealand and started the late Major Broun on his 
entomological career. He wrote many papers on Japanese 
Coleoptera, and in 1888 was appointed a member of the com- 
mittee to examine the fauna and flora of the West Indies. His 
friendship with the Rev. Thomas Blackburn brought him into 
personal relation with the Hawaiian Islands. 
When this friendship began I am not able to find out, but in 
his note book we find that he was exchanging specimens with 
Blackburn in August 9, 1865. From 1876 to 1882 the Rev. 
Thomas Blackburn resided in Honolulu as chaplain to the 
bishop and senior priest of the cathedral, and although his 
duties allowed him very little time for collecting, yet he man- 
