151 

 MAKCII 3rd, 1910. 



The sixty-tirt^t regular meeting of the Society was held in 

 the usual place. 



The followiug resolutions on the death of Mr. Kirkaldy were 

 presented by the coniuiittee appointed at the previous meeting: 



Resolved, That this Swiety desires to record its deep sorrow 

 and keen sense of loss experienced through the untimely death 

 of Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, its late President and one of its most 

 enthusiastic members. 



The deceased was in his 37th year, and his unexpected de- 

 mise was the result of an unfortunate riding accident involving 

 a broken leg, some five years ago. Repeated local operations 

 were unsuccessful and whilst enjoying a brief vacation in San 

 Francisco last January Mr. Kirkaldy decided to undergo an- 

 other operation ; at first everything seemed satisfactory, but soon 

 gangrene developed, proving fatal on February 2. 



]Mr. Kirkaldy was born in London of Scotch parentage, and 

 while still a boy he exhibited a keen love for natural history. 

 He was educated at the City of London School, and contrary 

 to his tastes he entered a shipping firm. During this most un- 

 congenial period he assiduously occupied his spare time with 

 entomology, finally concentrating his attention upon aquatic, 

 Hemiptera. publishing his first paper, ''A Revision of the ^oto- 

 nectidae," in 1897. Two years later he connnenced the work- 

 ing out of the Hemipterous portion of the zoological material 

 collected by Dr. R. C. L. Perkins in the Hawaiian Islands. The 

 results of which are published as the ''Fauna Hawaiiensis." In 

 1903 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' cane crop was menaced by 

 a recently introduced Fulgorid, which had acquired most formi- 

 dable proportions- and it was in conjunction with these studies 

 of the native fauna that an examination of this insect resulted 

 in its ]n'oving ncAv to science, and its consequent fixation in 

 entomological nomenclature as Perl-'ni^ieUa sacrJiaririda Kirk- 

 aldy. 



In the summer of 1903 the deceased was engaged as assist- 

 ant entomologist conjointly by the Hawaiian Territorial Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry and the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Association. Later continuing his studies upon the hemipterous 

 material (especially Fulgoridae), collected by the traveling en- 

 tomologists of the Association during their quest for beneficial 



