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Frank Edward Robinson, who joined the Society in 1880, met 

 a tragic fate in India in the course of last year, a young man 

 much under thirty years of age. He showed a taste for Natural 

 History when a pupil at Dulwich College, where he obtained an 

 Indian Civil Service Scholarship, which occasioned his removal to 

 Oxford ; there he attracted the notice of Prof. Westwood, and 

 made a tolerably complete MS. catalogue of all described Indian 

 insects for future use. He held a judicial appointment in India ; 

 but the promise of a useful career, officially and scientifically, was 

 prematurely cut short. Having taken part in a tiger-hunt, an 

 infuriated animal, wounded by one of his companions, attacked 

 and killed him. 



Edmund Shuttleworth. Again we have to deplore the pre- 

 mature decease of a promising worker. Mr. Shuttleworth, of 

 Preston, died in London in December 1885, after a brief illness 

 from scarlet fever, aged twenty-seven ; he joined the Society in 

 1884. He was a member of the legal profession, and held an 

 official position under the Clerk of Assize for the county of 

 Lancashire. As an entomologist he paid special attention to 

 Lepidoptera, and at the time of his death was devoting himself to 

 the Toi trices and Tineina with much ardour. 



I am not able to give any information concerning C. G. Websdale, 

 of Barnstaple, a comparatively old member of the Society, who 

 was elected in 1869, and died in 1886. 



In yesterday's ' Times ' (January 18th) is the announcement of 

 the death of the Rev. Charles Augustus Frederick Kuper, M.A., 

 on the 13th inst., aged eighty-one, elected in 1842, and one of our 

 oldest colleagues. For the last forty-four years he had been vicar 

 of Trelleck, Monmouthshire; therefore he joined this Society 

 about the time of his appointment. I think that on our present 

 hst there are only eight who were elected prior to Mr. Kuper, 

 and of these, five are Original Members. 



Of British entomologists not immediately connected with this 

 Society, a once familiar figure disappeared for ever from amongst 

 us in 1886. Dr. John Arthur Power died suddenly at Bedford on 

 June 9th, aged seventy-six. He was, I believe, of Irish descent, 

 but his family had long been settled in England. He was born 

 at INIarket Bosworth on the J 8th March, 1810, was educated at 

 Merchant Taylors' School, and subsequently entered at Clare 

 College, Cambridge, where he took liis B.A. degree (followed liy 



