260 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



weeks together, EJis entry on a public career in Brighton 

 was first made in connection with the Royal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution at the Albion Rooms. Shortly after 

 the formation of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History 

 Society, in 1853, Mr. Wonfor was appointed an Honorary 

 Secretary, a post he continued to fill to the date of his death, 

 and the duties of which he discharged with exceptional 

 ability and energy. At the meetings of this Society, from 

 which he was rarely absent, his extensive knowledge and 

 unfailing good humour rendered him a universal favourite, 

 and his death leaves a vacancy which it will be almost impos- 

 sible to supply. 



The papers communicated by Mr. Wonfor to the ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society ' 

 are very numerous, and the excellence of many of them has 

 obtained for their author a more than local reputation. 



It was as a microscopist that Mr. Wonfor chiefly distin- 

 guished himself, and one of his papers, "On certain Butterfly 

 Scales characteristic of Sex," read at Brighton in November, 

 1867, was subsequently published in the 8th vol. of the 

 Microscopical Journal, and is alluded to by Mr. Darwin in 

 his ' Descent of Man,' &c. In addition to this may be 

 mentioned his papers, " On the Eggs oi Artie ulata^^ "On the 

 Scales of Insects," &c., &c. 



Besides his very numerous papers on microscopical subjects, 

 Mr. Wonfor contributed a great number on EiUtomology, and 

 nearly every other branch of Zoology, not only to the Pro- 

 ceedings of his owu Society, but to ' Scientific Opinion,' 

 * Science Gossip,' and various other periodicals. 



On the occasion of the visit of the British Association to 

 Brighton in 1872, Mr. Wonfor took a very active part in 

 their proceedings, and acted as Secretary to one of the com- 

 mittees. 



Although the deceased never attained the position of a 

 distinguished scientific specialist, few men ever possessed so 

 large an amount of general information on scientific matters, 

 or have been more ready to impart it for the benefit of others, 

 than the amiable and accomplished gentleman, who for 

 nearly a quarter of a century has laboured so assiduously for 

 the intellectual improvement of his fellow townsmen. 



-Mr. Wonfor was apj)ointed Curator of the Free Library 

 and Museum in 1875 ; he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society in June, 1877, and a member of the Entomological 

 Society of London in February last. — H. Goss. 



