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of the latter in 1877,* he was a most successful medical lecturer 
and tutor, principally for the Army and Indian Departments. 
This he continued until a severe paralytic stroke, in January, 
1882, compelled him to retire. 
Power was elected a member of the Entomological Society of 
London on the 2nd June, 1834 (Proc. Ent. Soc., 1834, p. xxiv, 
where “Queen’s Coll.” is a mistake for Clare Hall); and his 
name appears in the list of members to the end of 1843, soon 
after which he resigned his membership. I cannot find that he 
ever contributed to the Society’s ‘ Transactions’; but from 1855 
onwards, there may be found in the ‘ Proceedings’ numerous 
records of the exhibition by him or on his behalf of species of 
Coleoptera and Hemiptera which he added to the British lists. 
He was chosen a member of the Entomological Club at a 
meeting held at William Spence’s house on the 20th December, 
1856; and they who, during the following five and twenty years, 
have had the privilege of joining those social gatherings, will not 
need to be reminded what an acquisition to the Club the cheery 
little Doctor was,—full of chat and anecdote, and invariably 
producing from his pockets some new British beetle, or some 
scores of specimens of a kind for which others had sought in 
vain, or had thought themselves lucky to bring home a solitary 
one. The last of those pleasant meetings which he attended 
(and the present writer never saw him afterwards) was at 
Mr. Grut’s house, on the 30th November, 1881. 
Disabled in the following year, he withdrew to Bedford, 
where some of his family were already settled. Writing in 
September, 1882, he gave the following account of himself :— 
“T lead a very quiet life at this out-of-the-way place, and am 
slowly recovering my powers of motion. My mental functions 
are quite restored, though they were in very bad condition for 
some time. I can now walk four or five miles, dress myself, feed 
myself, and all that; but my right hand is yet stiff and numb. 
I can write with it, but much better with the left.” In the 
following March he wrote again:—‘‘ Just now I am completely 
upset by an accident. I trod on my dressing-gown in going 
down stairs, and fell head foremost nearly from top to bottom. 
I thought I was smashed, but found no great damage done 
* An obituary notice of Dr. W. H. Power will be found in ‘ The Lancet’ of the 
10th March, 1877. 
