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England in 1905, he accepted employment in the Oxford 

 University Museum, and undertook the much-needed re- 

 organisation of its extensive collections of Orthoptera. Up 

 to this time, both as an investigator and a writer, his activity 

 had been distributed over a wide range of subjects ; but 

 thenceforth he was chiefly known as an expert on the 

 Systematics of Orthoptera, on which (and especially on the 

 Blattidae) he published, in our own Transactions and elsewhere, 

 many important Memoirs. He also commenced a Monograph 

 of these insects for the Fauna of British India, and another 

 for Genera Insectorum. Five " fasciculi " of the latter have 

 appeared; but of the former I understand that only a small 

 portion was completed even in MS. 



Before his death on June 22nd last, he had been engaged 

 also with notes for a projected " Natural History of Borneo," 

 and it is hoped that some of this work may yet appear 

 posthumously, 



Edward Arthur Fitch was born in 1854. Of late years 

 he appears to have relinquished interest in Entomology. 

 But he was formerly a very active and prominent member of 

 our Society, elected Fellow in 1874, Secretary from 1881 to 

 1885, and member of the Council in 1879 and 1886. About 

 the same period he joined the late Mr. Brid<j:man in compiling 

 a useful Revision of the British Ichneumonidae ; but for some 

 reason the work stopped short after considerable progress 

 had been made in its publication, and it was never resumed. 

 Mr. Fitch was a Fellow also of the Linnean Society, and 

 President for ten years of the well-known Essex Field Club. 

 He died on June 28th. 



George Herbert Grosvenor, elected Fellow in 1909, was 

 Demonstrator in Zoology at Oxford, and Teacher of Economic 

 Entomology in the School of Forestry. On September 4th, at 

 the age of thirty-two, he was drowned on the coast of Cornwall 

 while endeavouring to save the life of a companion. Scarcely 

 a month before I had seen him, I believe for the first time, 

 at the Oxford Congress, full of life and energy, assisting our 

 colleague Mr. Eltringham in the Secretarial department. 

 What 1 saw of him, little as it was, impressed me ; but it 

 would have done so more, if I had known that the bright and 



