He read papers on :— 
“ Insects injurious to our Turnip and Grain Crops.” 
“Notes on the Economy and Natural History of Beetles as affecting our 
Grain and Vegetable productions.” 
He also prepared the list of Micro-lepidoptera, which was pub- 
lished in our Transactions, Volume III. 
He died at Burton in 1892, aged 61. 
(The portrait was taken at the time he was making his collections, 
before the formation of our Society). 
PHILIP BROOKES MASON, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.M.S., F.L.S. 
(1889-1891 and 1894-1895). 
He was born at Burton-on-Trent, January 2nd, 1842. According 
to his own statement he commenced collecting natural history 
specimens at the age of four years. He entered upon his medical 
training in 1858, at Glasgow, where he gained prizes in anatomy, 
chemistry, and botany. After a year spent in his father’s surgery 
at Burton, he entered at University College, London, where he 
gained seven gold and silver medals, as well as the Filliter Exhi- 
bition in Pathological Anatomy, the Longridge Exhibition for 
general proficiency in medicine and surgery, and the Atkinson 
Morley Exhibition for three years in surgery. He was House 
Surgeon in the hospital to Mr. Erickson and Sir Henry Thompson, 
and in 1868 was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in University 
College, holding the appointment for three years. 
In 1884 he became a member of the Sociéte Entomologique de 
France, and for ten years was a member of the Entomological Club. 
He was an enthusiastic collector of botanical and entomological 
specimens, and he purchased several important entomological collec- 
tions. He had an almost perfect British Herbarium, and his Natural 
History Library was as complete as he could make it, His collections of 
