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It was eventually decided to forego tins 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 sapientia 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 what manner of man 

 Edward Saunders was, should turn to the account of his life 

 by the Rev. 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 deatli 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- 



