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Trichoptera with the intention of forming a collection for 
the York Museum, in which he was greatly interested. He 
was president of the York and District Naturalists’ Society, 
was on the Council of the York Philosophical Society, and 
was a member of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, the 
presidency of which he had repeatedly declined. He died 
suddenly at York on Dec. 22nd, 1897, having been a Fellow 
of this Society since 1892. 
JosEPpH Winuiam Dunnina, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., was born 
at Leeds, on November 5, 1888. He was educated at 
Huddersfield under Mr. Peter Inchbald, an enthusiastic 
naturalist, from whom Dunning acquired his love for ento- 
mology, and afterwards at Paris. He entered at Trinity 
College, Cambridge, graduated in 1856, and afterwards 
became Fellow and Tutor of the College. In 1861 he was 
called to the Equity Bar, where he practised successfully as 
a conveyancer. 
His interest in entomology began when a schoolboy, and 
to him is owing the rediscovery of Agrophila sulphuralis, at 
Brandon. In 1849, he joined this Society at the age of 16, and 
afterwards helped to found the Entomological Society of Cam- 
bridge, which, in conjunction with that of Oxford, produced 
an ‘‘ Accentuated List of British Lepidoptera.’ In this work 
Dunning took a prominent part, for which his classical 
knowledge and critical taste specially fitted him. 
In 1862 he was elected one of the Honorary Secretaries of 
this Society, a post which he held until January, 1871. The 
Society was then not in a flourishing condition, and Dunning 
set himself steadily to work to improve its position and to 
further its welfare in every possible way. 
An admirable man of business, he spared neither time nor 
trouble in the control of the Society’s affairs. Moreover, 
whenever money was urgently required, he was a liberal and 
unostentatious donor to the funds, often making up a financial 
deficit at the end of the year, and supplementing his dona- 
tions to the general funds by gifts to the Library and Publi- 
cation Account, both of which have repeatedly benefited by 
acts of generosity known in many cases to but one or two of 
his colleagues. As recently as 1894, he presented the 
