130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Abstract of Proceedings of the Soutlc London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for 1886. 



The Annual Report of this Society for the past year extends 

 to eighty-three pages, and contains a handsome plate by Mr, 

 Frohawli, of some of the more interesting entomological subjects 

 exhibited, the President's address, and abstracts of the pro- 

 ceedings of the meetings. The whole will be found worth 

 perusal, as the pages contain much that is novel. We observe 

 that the number of members has doubled during the year. The 

 enterprise of the Society is such as to deserve every support, and 

 it appears well on the way to become one of the leading Natural 

 History Societies of this country, — J. T. C. 



OBITUARY. 



John Sang. — Our readers will regret to hear that Mr. Sang, 

 of Darlington, died suddenly at his residence during the night of 

 March 19th, apparently having passed away in his sleep. Mr. 

 Sang was at one time a successful linendraper of Darlington, and 

 retired some years ago from business, with the intention of devo- 

 ting the remainder of his life to the study of Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 Having unfortunately become security for a friend, Mr. Sang 

 was called upon to make good a large sum of money ; this led 

 to the sale of all his collections, which will be remembered to 

 have taken place some few years ago in London. He had devoted 

 much time to drawing the Tineina from nature, and this led to 

 his afterwards, and up to the end of his life, being employed to 

 delineate the British Coleoptera by Mr. Philip Mason, of Burton- 

 on-Trent, and Mr. Sang developed an extraordinary gift in tlie 

 work. The subject of this notice never published any very 

 important work, but scattered communications from his pen will 

 be found in the entomological periodic literature extending over 

 many years. His age was fifty-nine, and we believe that he was 

 never married. — J. T. C. 



