THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



VoL.'XLL] APEIL, 1908. [No. 539 



JOHN THOMAS CARKINGTON. 



We regret to announce a further gap in the rapidly thinning 

 ranks of the older entomologists. 



Born on March 21 st, 1846, John Thomas Carrington was the 

 second son of Charles Carrington, of Crofts Bank House, Lanca- 

 shire, and was educated at a private school at Mottram, Cheshire, 

 and afterwards in Dublin. He originally studied for the medical 

 profession, but after extensive travels in North and South 

 America, and also in Africa, he finally adopted journalism as 

 .his profession. 



In 1876, on the death of Edward Newman, he was appointed 

 editor of this magazine, a position he occupied with conspicuous 

 ability and tact until its purchase by the late Mr. John Henry 

 Leecli in 1890. 



Li 1878 he took a leading part in organizing and managing 

 the National Entomological Exhibition at the Westminster 

 Aquarium, at which the finest representative collection of 

 British Entomology ever brought together was exhibited to the 

 public. In 1893 he bought ' Science Gossip,' which he edited 

 until it finally ceased in 1902. For many years he was one of 

 the departmental (Natural History) editors of the ' Field.' 



But it was not on the literary side alone that his energies 

 showed themselves. An all-round naturalist, he delighted in 

 getting away from business cares and carefully exploring the 

 lesser known districts around London and Brighton. In the 

 course of one of these excursions (September, 1896) he captured 

 the unique British specimen of Calophasia rflaUjptera, Esp. 

 Those who had the good fortune to accompany him at any of 

 these times will never forget the pleasure they gave. His know- 

 ledge of British Conchology, Botany, and Ornithology, so freely 

 afforded, his carefully arranged routes, and above all his genial 

 manner and the genuine pleasure he showed in pointing out 

 some new feature or rare specimen, rendered them ever to be 

 remembered. 



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