Feb., '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 63 



OBITUARY 



THE DEATH OF TWO EMINENT LEPIDOPTERISTS. 



The sad intelligence has just reached me of the death of 

 Lionel de Niceville, of Calcutta, who fell a victim on the third 

 of December to malarial fever. Mr. de Niceville was the fore- 

 most lepidopterist of India. His great work on the Butterflies 

 of India, Burmah and Ceylon, three volumes of which have 

 been published, will constitute an enduring monument to his 

 learning. The fourth volume has engaged his time and thought 

 for many years past, and lepidopterists have been earnestly look- 

 ing for its appearance. It is to be hoped that his untimely death 

 will not prevent its publication. 



Mr. de Niceville had endeared himself greatly to all those 

 who came into relations with him as a friend or as a corre- 

 spondent. The .science of entomology has lost in him one of 

 its brightest ornaments. 



The death of Mr. William Doherty in Uganda, where he was 

 engaged in collecting for the Hon. Walter Rothschild and the 

 writer, has created another great vacancy in the ranks of those 

 who have been occupied during the last twenty years in foster- 

 ing biological research. Details as to Mr. Doherty 's death are 

 not as yet available. All that is known is that he was seized 

 with a fatal illness when in camp, was taken by his faithful 

 lepchas, whom he brought with him from Darjeeling, and who 

 had been the companions of his wanderings for many years in 

 the islands of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago, to the nearest 

 military station, where he could receive medical attention, and 

 there died. The vast collections which he made throughout 

 India, Burmah and the islands of the East as far south as New 

 Guinea are distributed in many hands, but the bulk of them 

 are in the possession of the Hon. Walter Rothschild and the 

 writer of these lines. The story of his life, if it could be told, 

 would furnish one of the most fascinating and brilliant chapters 

 in the annals of scientific exploration. The writer hopes to be 

 able to furnish material enough from lettters and other sources 

 of information to give a picture of his long-continued and earnest 

 labors in behalf of scientific research. It is probable that no 



