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to the Mediterranean. When the war is over I trust I shall be able 

 to resume the revision of ' European Butterflies,'" with which I was 

 occupied in 1913-14, the author having assigned the copyright to 

 me with full approval of a revision on the lines I suggested. 



Mr. Kane was educated at Cheltenham College, and Trinity Col- 

 lege, Dublin, where he took his degree in arts and engineering. 

 Having succeeded to family estates in Monaghan, he settled down at 

 Drumreaske House in the early sixties, and after 1879 divided his 

 time between that place and Monkstown, where he was known as a 

 first-rate yachtsman and fisherman. In 1886 he organised the natural 

 history unit of the South-west Ireland Dredging Expedition, and 

 from that date onward contributed valuable papers on Crustacea to 

 the Royal Irish Academy's ' Proceedings.' 



His first contribution to the ' Entomologist ' was, I think, in 1882, 

 ' Causes of x\bundance or Otherwise of Lepidoptera ' (vol. xv, p. 244), 

 and hardly a year passed without some interesting contribution, 

 chiefly in connection with the then little-known entomological fauna 

 of Ireland. The most valuable of these is ' A Catalogue of the Lepi- 

 doptera of Ireland,' continued from 1893 to 1901, and eventually 

 published as a separate work with a beautiful plate by Messrs. West 

 Newman & Co. in the latter year. The introduction is an admirable 

 example of his power of clear thinking and clear reasoning. He was 

 a sometime President of the Royal Academy of Science, and for several 

 years a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. Besides 

 the many notes on British and Irish Lepidoptera — I cannot find that 

 he published, outside the handbook, any of his observations abroad — 

 he was an authority on the Crustacea, vertebrates, and archaeology 

 of his native island. A list of his works in all these departments 

 is published, with an excellent portrait and biography, in the July 

 number of the ' Irish Naturalist.' I knew him personally only 

 in his later life, when he had come to spend a part of the year at 

 Sevenoaks. His manner was charming and agreeable. He was 

 always ready to help when appealed to on his favourite branch of 

 Science, which was, and remained, the study of Lepidoptera. " The 

 Lepidoptera of Lambay," in the ' Irish Naturalist' of 1907, appears 

 to be his last published note. He leaves a host of friends on both 

 sides of the Irish Channel. 



Mr. Kane was twice married. His first wife died in 1901, his 

 only son in 1897. He married a second time, and is survived by a 

 daughter. He was remarkably young for his age. When I met him 

 for the last time on a bitter winter night in London in 1913 I little 

 realised that he was then well past three score years and ten. " If 

 you publish your edition of my book," he said, " I want you to retain 

 the first few pages of the Introduction intact." They include a 

 perfect description of a first spring day's collecting at Hyeres — from 

 the pen of an artist and true lover of Nature. It is as though he 

 conjured up " the pastures of the Blessed " themselves, all " decked 

 in glorious sheen," as many another butterfly-hunter since remembers 

 to have gazed down upon them from the rightly named Mont de 

 Paradis. H. R.-B. 



* ' European Butterflies,' Macmillan & Co., 1885. 



