and named many new species. The whole of his collection of 

 Geometridae was recently purchased by Dr. Wm. Barnes, of 

 Decatur, 111., who without doubt will make excellent use of it, 

 but we cannot but regret that so much of the fruit of our late 

 friend's research and ability should have passed from the Do- 

 minion. 



Mr. Taylor was well known as a student of Pacific Gsast 

 shells, especially those of British Columbia ; he was a keen 

 collector in conchology, and was also well posted in many 

 other branches of Natural History, and he leaves a very large 

 and valuable collection of shells, particularly rich in Limpets 

 and Unionidae. In the transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, 1S95-96, he published a Preliminary Catalogue of the 

 Marine Molusca of the Pacific Coast of Canada, with notes 

 upon their distribution ; also a Supplement to the same a year 

 or two later, and was engaged upon a new Catalogue for 

 publication, which, owing to poor health, was never com- 

 pleted. 



He contributed articles on shells, to the "Nautilus" (a 

 monthly devoted to the interests of Conchologists, now in its 

 26th year), in Vol. V. to VIII. and X. When living in Vic- 

 toria in 1891, he published a List of the Land and Fresh Water 

 Shells of Vancouver Island (Vol. V.), and in Vol. VII. a very 

 interesting account appears of dredging operations in Departure 

 Bay with Professor Macoun. Mr. Taylor was also a contrib- 

 utor to the Ottawa Field Naturalist. 



One of the writers corresponded with Mr. Taylor as far 

 back as 1888, chiefly in connection with their mutual hobbies 

 (shells and insects), but did not meet him until the spring of 

 1901, when he was moved from the Prairies to Victoria, but 

 since their visits were exchanged whenever possible, and some 

 of the writer's happiest recollections are of pleasant evenings 

 spent under his hospitable roof at Wellington, and later at 

 Departure Bay. 



Undoubtedly Mr. Taylor's chief scientific work was done 

 in connection with Marine Zoology, and in recognition of this 

 the Federal Government in 1905 appointed him a member of 

 the Dominion Fisheries Commission for British Columbia. In 

 the report of that Commission Mr. Taylor described as many 



