24 FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



TT is our sad duty to record the death of Mr. George Vahl, a 

 member of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, at the early 

 age of 32. Mr. Vahl was especially fond of boating and shoot- 

 ing and some six or seven weeks before his death he went on a 

 shooting excursion up the Caroni where he contracted a severe 

 cold of which he was unable to free himself. Having been for 

 some time a victim of insomnia he was in the habit of using 

 laudanum and on the 4th March, being unusually sleepless, he took 

 a stronger dose than customary with the result that he was acci- 

 dentally poisoned. He was taken to the Hospital and successfully 

 roused from his insensible condition, but, as the week wore round, 

 his strength, which had been seriously impaired by the cold 

 before referred to, broke down and he gradually sank and passed 

 away on Sunday evening, March 11th. The funeral obsequies, 

 which were attended by the President and several members of the 

 Club, were performed by the Rev. Russell Brown at Trinity 

 Cathedral and the Cemetery. Mr. Vahl was elected a member 

 of the Club on the 2nd September, 1S92, and was an ardent 

 Field Naturalist. He was particularly interested in the 

 Hemiptera. He left amongst his papers a half completed account 

 of one of his Caroni excursions, which he probably intended read- 

 ing at a Club meeting. He was a native of Germanv. 



