194 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
success in the Schools sufficed to gain for him a Fellowship at 
Clare. He proceeded in due course to the degree of M.A., 
joined the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and commenced the 
study of Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. There was at one 
time an idea of his taking part in scientific exploration in the 
East, and with this view he combined with Medicine the study of 
Hebrew and Arabic. 
In his undergraduate days, Power did something in the way 
of entomology, but only in desultory fashion. In 1832 or 1833, 
James Francis Stephens and he made an excursion to Holme 
Fen, with the result that in one day the former captured 
thirty, and the latter twenty-seven specimens of Lycena 
dispar. Possibly the veteran Mr. Frederick Bond may, in his 
early days, have rivalled this performance ; if not he, no other 
British entomologist remains who can recount a like experience 
of the extinct Large Copper. About 1834 or 1835, Power began 
collecting Coleoptera with greater assiduity, and investigated the 
fen district with considerable success. The first entry in his 
journal is, ‘‘ Burwell Fen, June 11th, 1835;” but his capture of 
Dromius quadrisignatus, at Cambridge, is mentioned in a paper 
of Prof. Babington’s, read before the Entomological Society on 
the 7th July, 1834 (Trans. Ent. Soc. i. 85). 
In May, 1841, he married Miss Helena Margaret Jermyn 
Jermyn, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn, a gentleman of 
repute as a herald and genealogist, whose forty MS. volumes 
of history of the chief Suffolk families are (I believe) pre- 
served in the museum at Bury St. Edmund’s. The elder 
sister of Mrs. Power was married to the late Sir Walter C. 
Trevelyan; and her brother, formerly Archdeacon of St. 
Christopher’s and late Bishop of Colombo, is now Bishop 
of Brechin. 
In those days, a College Fellowship was forfeited by marriage. 
Power came to London, and settled near his father, now well-known 
as an obstetric physician, in Nelson Square, Blackfriars, where he 
lived for nine years; and whence he removed to the house in 
Burton Crescent, which continued for thirty years to be a ren- 
dezvous for British Coleopterists. He was never in active medical 
practice, though he succeeded his father as medical officer to the 
Sovereign Life Insurance Office; but, in conjunction with his 
younger and only brother, Dr. W. H. Power, down to the death 
