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the great pains lie took in this delicate work, also of great 

 value to medical Entomology. 



H. Rowland-Brown, barrister, journalist, poet and entomol- 

 ogist, who died in May 1922, a few weeks short of 57, was a 

 very familiar figure at the gatherings of Entomologists. He 

 was best known to us as a very efficient secretary to our 

 Society, devoting much time and energy to this office. When 

 his final breakdown early in 1922 compelled him to give up 

 his active connection with the Society, we lost in him a most 

 genial companion and colleague. He was most interested in 

 European butterflies, on which he has published a number of 

 articles in various magazines. 



With W. L. Distant, who died on February ith, 1922, our 

 foremost authority on Rhynchota has passed away. To the 

 younger Entomologists who knew him as a famous Rhynchotist 

 it generally comes somewhat as a surprise to learn that he 

 was also the author of the splendid volume " Rhopalocera 

 Malayana," a book still indispensable to everyone who is 

 interested in Malayan butterflies. Lepidoptera were his early 

 love, but he soon left them in order to devote himself mainly 

 to Rhynchota. His contributions to the study of this order 

 of insects are so extensive that it is impossible to give an 

 adequate idea of them in a short notice. Eoremost among his 

 publications are the seven volumes on Heteroptera and 

 Homoptera in the Fauna of British India, some volumes in 

 the " Biologia Centrali- Americana," and the " Insecta Trans- 

 vaalensia." 



Hamilton H. Druce was only 54 when he died in June last. 

 Many of us have profited by his knowledge of the Lycaenidae 

 and Hesperiidae, in which families he was a specialist. His 

 publications referred almost exclusively to these families, of 

 which he had a fine collection, now in Mr. J. J. Joicey's 

 possession. 



H. J. Elwes, president of this Society in 1893-4, took a 

 wide interest in many branches of natural sciences, in botany 

 no less than in zoology. Circumstances permitted him to 

 follow his temperament and devote much time to travelling 

 in foreign countries, where he employed to great advantage 

 the opportunities he had in unexplored fields. His interest in 



