24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and a specialist in the Microlepidoptera without equal in the ranks 

 of modern entomologists. From his earliest days of interest in 

 science, after leaving Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which 

 University he was appointed High Steward in 1891, he never wearied 

 in allegiance to the great family of Lepidoptera, with which his name 

 will always be associated. His achievements therein are commemo- 

 rated in many monographs and papers dealing with the subject, and 

 finally enshrined in the magnificent Walsingham Collection and 

 Library presented by him to the Natural History Museum on 

 April 1st, 1910. The collection, besides thousands of specimens 

 collected by himself, includes those of Zeller, Hofmann and Christoph, 

 and is certainly one of the most complete — if not the most complete 

 — in the world. Lord Walsingham, indeed, maintained his interest 

 in the group down to the last days of his life. A member of all the 

 most important entomological societies, he joined the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1866, and was, with two exceptions, I think, 

 the oldest elected Fellow on the list. In the years 1889-90 he was 

 President, and Vice-President during several years, his last term 

 of service on the Council being in 1896. During the present century 

 he lived much abroad and was less often seen at the Society's 

 meetings. But he maintained his interest in its work and pro- 

 ceedings, and especially in the men who concentrated upon the 

 aspects of entomology which are rather those of the field than the 

 museum. His own field-work in sport and science covered an 

 immense area, commencing overseas with a visit to California and 

 the Western States of America, later extended to North Africa, 

 Andalusia, Corsica, and the South of France where he had a villa. 

 To entomologists of all orders he was equally sympathetic, and the 

 writer of this notice remembers him also as the most generous of 

 men where assistance was needed for naturalists who had met bad 

 fortune. In his time a foremost figure of society, a shot without 

 rival, a writer on sporting subjects accurate and entertaining, his 

 energies found useful outlet also in the muliifarious public duties 

 and trusts imposed upon him. Apart from his fellow- and membership 

 of learned societies innumerable he was a trustee of the British 

 Museum, the Hunterian Museum and the Lawes Agricultural Trust. 

 It was in the performance of his duties as High Steward of Cambridge 

 University that he caught the chill which terminated his long and 

 useful career, and those who were privileged to know him in his 

 private as well as in his public life may well ask when we shall " look 

 upon his like again " ? Though he belonged to the older generation 

 of lepidopterists he moved with the times, and his loss will be as 

 keenly felt by the younger generation of scientists as by the men 

 who have been his contemporaries. Lord Walsingham was twice 

 married, but he leaves no heir ; the title, therefore, devolves on his 

 half-brother, the Hon. John de Grey, until lately a London police 

 magistrate. H. E.-B. 



With great regret we have to announce the death of Mr. T. E. 

 Billups on December 10th last. A further notice will appear in our 

 next issue. 



