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OBITUARY. 



Joseph AVilliam Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., &c. — Mr. J. W. 

 Danning died suddenly on Friday, the 15th of October last, 

 at his residence, 4, Talbot Square, Hyde Park, W. He was born 

 at Leeds in the year 1833, and was educated privately under 

 tutors until 1851, when he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 as an undergraduate. Having taking the degree of M.A.,he was 

 shortly afterwards (in 1858) elected a Fellow of his College. In 

 January, 1855, he was admitted a Law Student, and on the 

 26th January, 1861, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable 

 Society of Lincoln's Inn. From that time until about five years 

 ago he enjoyed a considerable practice as an equity draftsman 

 and conveyancer, at No. 12, Old Square. 



A few years ago he had a paralytic stroke, which partially 

 deprived him of speech and obliged him to retire from the 

 practice of his profession, and a second stroke which he had on 

 October 15th last was the cause of his death. 



In his early boyhood Mr. Dunning was a collector of Lepido- 

 ptera, and his name is familiar to most of us as being one of the 

 first to capture in this country Agropkila sidphuralis (now known 

 as Emmelia trabealis). Speaking of this species Mr. Stainton, 

 in his ' Manual,' says, it " used to be a great rarity, but a 

 schoolboy spending his summer holidays at Brandon having 

 taken it, this insect found its way into all our collections, and 

 Mr. Dunning ' awoke and found himself famous.' " 



Mr. Dunning joined the Entomological Society in 1849, when 

 a lad of sixteen years of age, the Linnean Society in 1860, and 

 the Zoological Society in 1864. He was Secretary to the 

 Entomological Society from January, 1862, to January, 1871, 

 and was Vice-President several times — namely, in 1875, under 

 the Presidency of Sir Sidney Smith Saunders ; in 1877, under 

 Professor Westwood ; in 1879, under Sir John Lubbock ; and 

 again in 1890, under Lord Walsingham. In 1883 and 1884 he 

 was President of the Society. 



It is believed that Mr. Dunning had not many opportunities 

 of giving attention to field natural history after his early boy- 

 hood ; and his contributions to the Transactions and Proceedings 

 of the Entomological Society are not numerous, but his Presi- 

 dential Addresses were admirable in point of style. He was the 

 compiler and editor, or at least one of the most active compilers 



