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of the various scientific Societies (Royal, Linnean, Zoological, 
and Entomological) of which he was a Fellow. Those who 
have served with him on such Boards will recall his quiet, 
kindly ways, enlivened by a pleasant sense of humour, and 
how often his brief suggestions exactly met a difficulty, or 
indicated the best course to adopt. But for his weak health 
during recent years, he would long since have taken the chair as 
President of our Society. In private life he was a kind and 
constant friend, and to all his scientific acquaintances most 
amiable and obliging, readily placing at their disposal both 
his great knowledge and his unrivalled collections. 
ERNEST CHARLES AuGcuste Canphze, M.D., F.E.S., was born 
at Liége on the 27th of February, 1827, and studied medicine 
there and at Paris. He became assistant medical officer to, 
and subsequently director of, a large asylum at Glain, near 
Liege, a post which he retained until a few years ago, 
In entomology he was a pupil of Lacordaire, under whose 
guidance and supervision, and in collaboration with a fellow- 
pupil, F. Chapuis, he published in 1853 his first work, a 
Catalogue of Coleopterous Larvee, known up to that date, and 
still of much utility. It is probable that Lacordaire, in his 
solicitude for the study of the more neglected families of 
Coleoptera, induced Chapuis to take up the Phytophaga 
and Xylophaga, and Candéze to devote himself to the Elate- 
rid, a family with which his name is permanently associated. 
He formed an extensive collection of Elaterids, which in- 
cluded series from the Dejean and other old collections, and 
served as the groundwork of his monograph of the family, 
published in 1857, 1859 and 1860, in three volumes. This 
collection was purchased by the late Mr. E. W. Janson, and 
was subsequently acquired by Mr. F. D. Godman for the 
British Museum. Candéze formed more than one subsequent 
collection, and published a large number of papers on the 
family, chiefly in the “ Annales” of the Belgian Entomological 
Society, of which he was one of the founders. He also com- 
piled a catalogue of the species described subsequently to that 
of Gemminger and Von Harold. Dr. Candéze was a man of 
much culture and many accomplishments. He joined this 
Society in 1860. 
PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND. V., 1898. E 
