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96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
was made a member of the Council in 1914. But his energies were 
by no means confined to entomology ; he was a keen ornithologist, 
and took a deep interest besides in the movement for the establish- 
ment of Nature Reserves in the United Kingdom, and the preservation 
of our wild indigenous fauna. Indeed, with his father, Mr. EH. G. B. 
Meade- Waldo, of Hever Warren, Edenbridge, Kent, he had worked at 
Natural History in almost all its branches throughout his life, and to 
Mr. Meade-Waldo and his family we offer our sincerest sympathy in 
their bereavement. Geoffrey Meade-Waldo was at the Council 
Meeting of the Entomological Society on March Ist. A fortnight 
later he was dead, having succumbed to the after-effects of an attack 
of pneumonia. We who are left have lost a dear friend and comrade. 
Salve, atque vale! 
JOHN Hiwu. 
On January 29th, 1916, passed away painlessly and peacefully 
John Hill, of Little Haton, Derbyshire, one of the old school of 
Entomologists now fast dying out. Born in the year 1843, he early 
showed a leaning towards the study of Nature, but it was not until 
the year 1876 that he took up the science of Entomology, though 
during the forty years which have since elapsed he was probably the 
most indefatigable collector in the county of Derby, and became a 
thorough all round “ Field Naturalist.” 
In his early days, he, Mr. W. G. Sheldon and one of the writers 
of this notice, were enthusiastic co-collectors, but Mr. Sheldon left 
Derbyshire in 1880, and afterwards Mr. Hill had few opportunities 
of comparing notes with local entomologists, consequently he had 
to discover for himself the habits and localities of the numerous 
species he added to the local records. 
After working at Macro-lepidoptera for some years he turned 
his attention to the micros and was so remarkably successful that 
he was continually surprising the Rev. H. A. Stowell, then Rector 
of the neighbouring village of Breadsall, by bringing to him pre- 
viously unrecorded local species. 
Unfortunately Mr. Hill did not label his specimens and kept very 
few data, with the result that most of his knowledge, except that 
embodied in the Victoria County History, has been lost with him. 
He was particularly clever in the preservation of larve, and 
many were the encomiums expressed by experts upon the quality of 
his work in this direction, which far surpassed that ordinarily seen, 
especially in the preservation of colours and the manipulation of 
hairy larvee. 
He had a number of exotics collected for him by his friends 
abroad, and a fine lot of Coleoptera. 
He joined the Conchological Society in 1893, and at the time of 
his death was President of the recently formed Derbyshire Ento- 
mological Society. 
Full of interesting information, and always ready and willing to 
impart it to others, he was an excellent companion and a most 
lovable man, and by no one more than the writers of this notice— 
one of his oldest and one of his latest friends—will he be missed. 
G. H., Sistas 
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