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G. H GROSVENOR. 



The sad news of the untimely death of Mr. G. H. 

 Grosvenor came as a great shock to the members of the 

 Entomological Congress. Previously to that meeting he 

 was doubtless known to many of the members only by 

 reputation, but he quickly found for himself a high place 

 in their regard. Acting as Joint Secretary of the Oxford 

 Committee, he assisted in the whole organisation with 

 the same quiet courtesy and efficiency which characterised 

 all his undertakings. After the close of the Congress he 

 went on a visit to his sister and brother-in-law, who 

 were staying at Polzeath, in Cornwall, and on September 

 4th he was drowned in a heroic but unsuccessful en- 

 deavour to save the life of a friend. 



George Herbert Grosvenor was the eldest son of 

 Mr. G. W. Grosvenor, D.L., of Blakedown, near Kidder- 

 minster, and was born in 1880. He was head boy of Mr. 

 E. B. Hawtrey's Preparatory School at Westgate, and 

 from there took a classical scholarship to Harrow in 1894. 

 At Harrow he was successively head of each form until he 

 took his place in the sixth. For more than a year he was 

 head of Mr. Bowen's house, and was especially distin- 

 guished in mathematics. He was awarded the Beddington 

 Chemistry Prize, and taking up the study of biology shortly 

 before leaving school he obtained a biological scholarship 

 at New College, Oxford. In 1902 he took a first class in 

 Natural Science, and was chosen to occupy the Oxford 

 Table at the Naples Marine Biological Laborator}^ 

 Here, by a brilliant piece of research, he confirmed 



