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the M.A.), and obtained a Second Class in the Classical Tripos. 

 He adopted the medical profession, which culminated in he and 

 his brother establishing a training institution for medical students, 

 in which their success was very great, and their reputation such 

 that it used to be said that the fact of a pupil having been under 

 the Powers contributed in no small degree to his chances of 

 passing successful examinations. When at Cambridge he showed 

 a taste for Entomology, and joined this Society in 1834, but 

 resigned in 1843, and was never again one of our number. 

 Power was essentially a British coleopterist (though afterwards he 

 also collected British Hemiptera). His house in Burton Crescent 

 became a rendezvous for British coleopterists. As a collector he 

 was unequalled. No one possessed a keener eye for specific 

 differences, and no one knew more of the habits of the insects he 

 was in search of. In the field he was a study when engaged in 

 his favourite pursuit, utterly regardless of personal appearance, 

 and utterly unconscious as to surroundings. In book-work he 

 was less at home, and if ever he showed an occasional testiness it 

 was when some younger man, with more book-knowledge than he, 

 forestalled him, as he considered, in the determination of new or 

 obscure species ; but it was only temporary. In private life he 

 was beloved by all who knew him ; even his eccentricities had a 

 charm about them. About five years ago he had a paralytic 

 stroke, which permanently disabled his right hand, and which, 

 though it left his keen intellect quite unimpaired, practically ended 

 his career as a working entomologist. He removed to Bedford, 

 probably in connection with educational facilities for his grand- 

 children, and turned his attention to horticulture. His end was 

 extremely sudden, and in no way connected with the seizure that 

 held him lingering for several days between life and death a few 

 years before. 



Of prominent foreign entomologists, not connected with this 

 Society, who died in 1886, 1 mention the following: — 



Maurice Girard, a past President of the Entomological Society 

 of France, died suddenly, on Sept. 16th, at Lion-sur-Mer, on the 

 French shores of the Channel, whither he had gone to spend the 

 vacation, in his sixty-fourth year. He held an official position on 

 the Commission for Primary Education. His studies tended in 

 the direction of economic and applied Entomology, and he 

 published, in 1876, a very important memoir on the Phylloxera 



