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He married (in 1869) Annette, youngest daughter of John 

 Crawford, Esq., solicitor, of Holly Mount, Co. Meath, by whom 

 he had three sons, two of whom, now resident in America, 

 survive him. 



He recently retired to Combe Martin, North Devon, where he 

 took a great interest in the proposed reopening of the famous 

 silver mines, but shortly before Christmas he contracted a severe 

 chill, from the effects of which he never recovered, and after 

 many weeks of acute suffering, patiently endured, pneumonia set 

 in, and he died on March 5th, aged sixty-two. 



C. A. B. 



HERBERT GOSS, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Hekbert Goss died on February 14th last at his house in 

 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill, after a somewhat lingering illness. 

 Born in " the fifties " in Brompton, he early evinced a decided 

 love for natural history, and there is a story in his family that 

 he started butterfly hunting at the age of six with the top of a 

 hat-box covered with muslin for a net ! Educated by private 

 tutors, he finally entered the Solicitors' Department of the 

 General Post Office in May, 1871, retiring in June, 1906. 



From his earliest boyhood he took a keen interest in the 

 British Lepidoptera, and later specialized as an authority on 

 fossil insects, his papers on the subject, contributed to the ' Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine,'* being afterwards reprinted, and 

 in this form they were widely read and appreciated both at home 

 and abroad, and commented upon with favour by such authorities 

 as Bargagli in the ' Bulletin of the Entomological Society of 

 Italy' (Florence, 1886). As a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 of London, he had already contributed to the ' Proceedings ' the 

 Insect Fauna of the Recent and Tertiary Periods (1877), of the 

 Secondary or Mesozoic Period (1878), of the Primary or Palaeo- 

 zoic Period (1879), and lastly a paper "On some Recently Dis- 

 covered Insects from Carboniferous and Silurian Rocks," while 

 his " Geological Antiquity of Insects " appeared in 1880. Mean- 

 while many notices in the ' Entomologist's Monthly ' and the 

 ' Entomologist ' testify to his keen interest and powers of observa- 

 tion in field-work, while presently as one of the first Secretaries 

 in co-operation with the Rev. Canon W. N. Fowler, his experience 

 in the General Post Office was destined to be of the greatest value 

 to the then newly chartered Entomological Society of London. 

 Elected a member in 1874, he joined the Council ten years later, 

 and when Mr. E. A. Fitch and Mr. W. R. Kirby relinquished the 



* See also " Notes on a Fossil Wing of a Dragonfly from the Bourne- 

 mouth Leaf Beds," by H. Goss (Entom. vol. xi. p. 192), and " Fossil Insects " 

 {ibid., vol. xviii. p. 196). 



