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on the 5th of October. He died in the most perfect peace of 

 body and of mind. For many years Mr. Walker was a 

 member of the Linnean and Entomological Societies of 

 London, but resigned his membership in both some time 

 before the close of his life. 



It might be excusable in a man of such incessant bodily 

 activity, — so locomotive by inclination, so devoted to the 

 study of Nature in all her aspects, so diligent a collector of 

 the objects of his favourite study, — had he allowed his pen 

 to rest while his hands were engaged in forming and 

 arranging his collections. But this was not the case with 

 Mr. Walker, as his Catalogues of the National Collection 

 abundantly testify. Of the Lepidoptera Heterocera, alone, 

 Mr. Walker catalogued and described upwards of twenty-three 

 thousand species; in addition to which he prepared similar 

 catalogues, although perhaps not to the same extent, of the 

 Diptera, Orthoptera, Homoptera, Neuroptera, and part of the 

 Hymenoptera: such an amount of labour, as is testified by 

 these catalogues, has seldom, if ever, been accomplished 

 by one individual. But this statement by no means 

 represents the whole of his literary labours. He contributed 

 shorter or longer papers to the Transactions of learned 

 societies, and to the periodicals of the day, especially 

 to the 'Zoologist' and 'Entomologist;' by the indexes 

 of the latter I find he sent thirteen communications to 

 the first volume, three to the second, one to the fourth, 

 thirteen to the fifth, and forty-three to the sixth ; during 

 the present year his writings appear in every number. I 

 intended to catalogue these, and his other labours, to give 

 some idea of the number of pages, number of species, and 

 dates of each ; but I can scarcely now venture to look 

 forward to the accomplishment of this labour of love. 



A word remains to be spoken of the man apart from the 

 scientific and accomplished naturalist. Throughout my long 

 life I have never met with anyone who possessed more 

 correct, more diversified, or more general information, or 

 who imparted that information to others with greater readi- 

 ness and kindness; I have never met with anyone more 

 unassuming, more utterly unselfish, more uniformly kind and 

 considerate to all with whom he came in contact. It is no 

 ordinary happiness to have enjoyed the friendship of such a 

 man for nearly half a century. — Edward Newman. 



