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It was eventually decided to forego this entertainment 
altogether for the year just ended; and we may hope 
that the social and scientific gathering, when it does take 
place, may be for entomologists not the least interesting and 
brilliant of the functions marking the season of the coming 
Coronation. 
If the public bereavement has been severe, our private 
losses have also been heavy. All who had the privilege of 
knowing Edward Saunders will preserve an abiding memory 
of his striking, semi-ascetic countenance, his unfailing courtesy, 
his quiet, unassuming but forceful character, his deep learning, 
and the mitis safientia that pervaded in him both word and 
action. One who has a much better right than myself to 
speak of our departed friend has written an eloquent and 
touching tribute to his memory; and those of our number 
who would wish to gain an idea of Avhat manner of man 
Edward Saunders was, should turn to the account of his life 
by the Kev. F. D. Morice. As a Fellow of the Royal Society 
he worthily upheld the dignity of Entomology among the 
Sciences of Life ; and his loss has been keenly felt, not only 
by his immediate associates, but throughout all entomological 
circles at home and abroad. 
His death was shortly followed by that of his brother, 
George Sharp Saunders, F.L.S., also a keen entomologist, and 
one who had made valuable contributions to our knowledge of 
noxious insects. 
It was with unusually great regret that we received the 
news of the untimely death of George Willis Kirkaldy, 
which took place at San Francisco, in the thirty-seventh year 
of his age. It was some five or six years ago that he met with 
the accident, while riding, from the ultimate effects of which 
he died. Educated at the City of London School, he early 
developed a taste for entomology. His first paper, “A 
Revision of the Notonectidae,” was published in 1897. The 
hemipterous portion of the Zoological material collected by Dr. 
R. C. L. Perkins was worked out by him, and the results 
published in 1903 as part of the “ Fauna Hawaiiensis.” In 
the same year Mr. Kirkaldy was appointed Assistant- 
Entomologist to the Hawaiian Territorial Board of Agricul- 
