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was put together, will look back to those evenings as among thio 
most instructive and pleasant in their memories. 
But to regard Enock simply as a popular lecturer would be to do 
him an injustice. It may be that his early training in the engineering 
profession instilled into his. mind the necessity of exactitude of 
detail, but whether that be so or not, accuracy was the keynote of all 
his work. No pains were too great for him in unravelling the 
details of any work that he had undertaken, and it is to be feared 
that not infrequently his health was made to suffer rather than he 
should miss some point in the development of the subject that he 
was studying. His view of entomology was largely although by no 
means confined to the economic side, and he did good work in 
working out to the minutest detail the habits of pests that from time 
to time threatened our crops, such as the Hessian Fly (Cecidomyia 
destructor), the Mustard Beetle (Phedon cochleari@ (betule)), and 
other obnoxious species. He was also an expert microscopist and a 
good photographer, and was particularly happy in his methods of 
preparing and mounting minute insects as microscopic slides. 
These accomplishments were of great assistance to him in the chief 
work of his later years, the study of the Mymaride. It was his 
intention, we believe, to publish a monograph of these delicate little 
‘fairy flies,” and during his lifetime he had already published the 
descriptions of several new species of the group, while of many others 
he had the descriptions in manuscript; indeed, there is reason for 
believing that the material for his proposed monograph was in an 
advanced state at the time of his death, and it is much to be hoped 
that the work on which he had spent so much labour may yet be avail- 
able for publication. Fortunately we have in this country a society 
whose special work it is to produce such publications, and it is not 
impossible that if they could be approached, with the manuscript in 
suitable form, a means might thus be found for saving this valuable 
portion of his work for posterity. 
For many years and until the time of his death he was a Fellow of 
the Linnean, Entomological, Royal Microscopical, and Royal Horti- 
cultural Societies, anda member of the Birmingham Natural History 
and the South London Entomological and Natural History Societies. 
He was of a sociable disposition and appeared to enjoy to the full 
the intercourse of the many friends with whom he came into 
contact at their meetings, and by whom especially he will be greatly 
missed. 
During the greater part of his life he resided in or near London, 
and it was less than two years ago that he was induced to remove to 
Hastings in the hope that his failing health might thereby be 
benefited ; this, however, was not to be, and he passed away on 
May 26th last, having exceeded man’s allotted span of three score 
years and ten by little more than a year.—R. A. 
ErratumM.—Page 187, line 5 from bottom, for “ H. Chapman ”’ 
read ‘'T. A. Chapman,” 
