OBITUARY. 
JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOOD: 
Born DECEMBER 22, 1805. DIED JANUARY 2, 1893. 
AST month we chronicled the death of the veteran entomologist, 
Mr. H. T. Stainton, and now we have to record the passing 
away of a yet more venerable figure among British students of insect 
life, Professor Westwood, of Oxford. 
Westwood’s native town was Sheffield; there, and at Lichfield, 
whither his family afterwards removed, he was educated at private 
schools. A strong taste for natural history, a marked aptitude for 
drawing, a love for Lichfield Cathedral and its services, were charac- 
teristics of his boyhood, and all three bore fruit in his after-life. On 
leaving school Westwood was articled toa solicitor in London; he 
afterwards became a partner, but soon relinquished law to give 
himself to his chosen studies—entomology and ecclesiastical art. 
Known to naturalists throughout the world by his work on the former 
subject, he has acquired a wide reputation among archeologists by 
his descriptions and beautifully executed copies of ancient Christian 
MSS., and illuminations, ivories, and inscribed stones. His archzo- 
logical work was carried on concurrently with his entomology, from 
the publication of the Palgographia Sacra Pictoria (1845) to the 
Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS. 
(1868), the Catalogue of the Fictile Ivortes in the South Kensington Museum 
(1876), and the Lapidarium Wallie (1876-9). It is to his beautiful 
draughtmanship that we probably owe the combination in Westwood 
of two such apparently dissimilar lines of study as archeology and 
entomology. 
His entomological writings date from 1827, when he began to 
contribute papers on various orders of insects to different journals and 
to the publications of the Linnean and other Societies. In 1837 he 
published a new edition of Drury’s figures of exotic insects, for which 
he wrote descriptions. In 1838 appeared his Entomologist’s Text-Book, 
to be followed in the two following years by the two volumes of the 
Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects. . 
This latter work is one of the classics of British entomology, and 
no later work on insects generally, published in England, has been 
able to supersede it. Many of its speculations seem strange to 
naturalists reared in modern days, as the arrangement of the insect 
