carried on a Sunday service in a school building about a mile 

 away from the Station, whenever possible, until failing health 

 prevented. 



In 1881, Mr. Taylor was made a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Canada. He had been for many years a Fellow of 

 the Zoological and Entomological Societies of England, and 

 fifteen years ago was elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club. All these societies have 

 been benefitted by his labors. In 1887 he was appointed Hon- 

 orary Provincial Entomologist of British Columbia. About six 

 years ago, a B. C. Entomological Society was formed, and of 

 this he naturally became the President. 



Soon after his arrival on Vancouver Island, he gave atten- 

 tion to the attractive and then but little known fauna of the 

 Pacific Coast, for in the preface to the Toronto Check List of 

 Insects, which was published in 1883, Messrs. Brodie and 

 White speak of him as a collector to whom their thanks were 

 due, and at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario, held in London, Ont., October 15, 1884, Mr. 

 James Fletcher presented, on behalf of Mr Taylor, a collec- 

 tion of Diurnal Lcpidoptcra to the Society. On this occasion 

 Mr. Fletcher said "that although Mr. Taylor was but a new 

 member, he had already done good work." In the report of 

 this meeting, the first contribution by the Rev. G. W. Taylor 

 to the annals of the Society appears. It is entitled "Notes on 

 the Entomology of Vancouver Island." In the "Canadian 

 Entomologist" for the same year (Vol. XVI.) other papers 

 written by him will be found. In the Annual Report of the 

 Entomological Society for 1887, he published a very interest- 

 ing account of Mount Finlayson, in search of Chionabas gigas, 

 Butler. It was during the period of his second residence in 

 Vancouver Island, that he became a constant contributor to 

 the pages of the "Canadian Entomologist." In the volumes 

 of that magazine numbered from XXXVI. to XLII., inclu- 

 sive, no less than eighteen papers from his hand appear. His 

 last contribution, entitled "On Some New Species of Meso- 

 leuca," is given in the number for March, 1910. 



Of late years Mr. Taylor gave much attention to the 

 Geometridae, especially those belonging to the genera Eplth- 

 ecia. Curtis, and Mesoleuca, Hubner. Of these he described 



