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H. T. Dobson died on June 27th, at New Maiden, at the age 

 of 61, He joined our Society in 1884, and was elected a member 

 of the Entomological Society of London in 1895. Despite poor 

 health and many calls on his time, he remained an enthusiastic 

 lover of nature. 



William Warren, M.A., F.E.S., died at Tring on October 

 18th, aged 75 years. His interest in British lepidoptera was 

 life-long, and he was at work on his favourite study. Entomology, 

 until within a few days of his death. As long ago as 1878 he 

 contributed to the "Entomologists' Monthly Magazine" articles 

 on the early stages of Ephippiphora nii/rocostana and FAachista 

 stabilella, and was the author of the race impar of Bnjoplnla 

 muroiis. He was a voluminous describer of exotic Geometridfe 

 and PyralidiB, and during twenty years' work at Tring he con- 

 tributed largely to that excellent work " Novitates Zoologicae," 

 describing geometrid fauna from India, New Guinea, and the 

 basins of the Upper Aros, Anga Bunga and Bingi Eivers. 

 Vol. 3 of Seitz's Work " The Macrolepidoptera of the World," 

 dealing with the noctuids, is largely from his pen. His great 

 forte was descriptive work. 



William West, who died at Bradford in May, aged GH years, was 

 well known as botanist and biologist. Appointed botanical lecturer 

 at Bradford Technical College in 1886, he succeeded in instilling 

 the keenest enthusiasm in all his pupils. He was a recognised 

 authority on Alga?, and a classification by him of the Desmidiaceas 

 was published by the Royal Society. 



Dr. John H. Wood died at Ledbury, on August 29th, 1914, aged 

 73. His earlier studies were devoted to lepidoptera, when he 

 worked out the life-histories of several species, including Nepticula 

 torniinalis, Tia(piia betnhc, Micropterijx sa)i(/ii, etc. Besides his 

 discovery of Ditula irondiaua and its larva, which feeds on mistle- 

 toe, he added several species of Nepticida to the British list. His 

 later years he devoted with equal energy to the study of diptera, 

 publishing a monograph on the difficult genus Phora. He con- 

 tributed altogether 45 papers on Entomology between 1878 and 

 last year. 



The literature of Entomology has been no less prolific during 

 the past year than it was in the previous twelve months, and it is 

 impossible to enumerate anything like a complete list of the various 

 publications of interest. I shall therefore only mention some of 

 those that have come particularly before my notice. 



