THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLIII.] MAECH, 1910. [No. 562 



GEORGE WILLIS KIRKALDY, F.E.S. 



We are deeply grieved to announce the death, on February 

 2nd last, of our highly esteemed colleague, whose name has 

 been a familiar one in the pages of this Journal for several 

 years past. Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy was the youngest son of the 

 late Mr. ^Y. H. Kirkaldy, of Wimbledon, and was born at 

 Clapham in 1873. A love of Natural History was evinced at a 

 very early age, and later it became a passion with him. He was 

 educated at the City of London School, and whilst there was 

 appointed Curator of the School Museum. Joining a Debating 

 Society at the Presbyterian Church, he, although only a young 

 lad, read some excellent papers, notably one on the " Coloration 

 of Insects." 



After entering upon City life he devoted his evenings to 

 Entomology either in the field or the study. Always a great 

 reader, and possessing an excellent memory, he rapidly equipped 

 himself for the work he proposed to undertake when he could 

 devote the whole of his time to a scientific career. 



The offer of a post, under the U. S. Government, on the 

 entomological staff of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Forestry at Honolulu (subsequently transferred to the Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Association), was readily accepted, and in 1903 

 he went out to Hawaii to take up the appointment. Here he 

 seems to have been quite in his element, with plenty of work of 

 the quality he most desired awaiting his able investigation. 

 Soon after settling down in Honolulu, however, he met with the 

 unfortunate riding accident that proved a trouble to him during 

 the remainder of his life. The bone of the injured leg, wiiich 

 had been fractured in five places, did not unite properly, and 

 although he submitted to two separate operations later on, he 

 was not satisfied with the result. When on a holiday visit to 

 San Francisco at the beginning of the present year he appears 

 to have been persuaded to undergo still another operation, but 

 he only survived it five days. 



ENTOM. — MAIICH, 1910. G 



