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land, Fen, and Hill," and " Woodside, Burnside, Hillside, 

 and Marsh." 



Edward Saunders, F.R.S., died on February 6th at the 

 age of 6i years. He was one of the pillars of entomo- 

 logical science. His special studies were the Hymenoptera 

 and Hemiptera, of which large groups he had been acknow- 

 ledged as one of the first authorities of the day for some 

 years past. He also studied the Coleoptera, more particularly 

 earlier in life, and in the very first volume of the " Entomo- 

 logists' Monthly Magazine " (1S64) there is a note on 

 Coleoptera from his pen. On several occasions at the 

 Entomological Society of London his name was proposed 

 for the Presidency, but he was always compelled to forego 

 the honour through delicate health. 



George Carter Bignell died on March ist at the advanced 

 age of close on 84 years. To those who had come in con- 

 tact with Mr. Bignell there was an irresistible feeling of a 

 great personality. He was a first-rate all-round naturalist, 

 and had at different times put his whole energy into the 

 study of many different groups of insects, besides spiders and 

 land and freshwater shells. In July, 1893, it was my pleasure 

 to meet and collect with the late Mr. Bignell and the late 

 Major Still in the sheltered valleys under Dartmoor, close to 

 Tavistock. Almost every larva, almost every insect, of 

 whatever order, Mr. Bignell seemed to know. Unfortunately, 

 the legacy left to science is exceedingly small, and Mr. 

 Bignell's vast knowledge for the greater part perished with 

 him. 



George Willis Kirkaldy died, as the result of an accident, 

 on February 2nd. He joined the Society in igoo, and 

 although not a regular habitue, it was not because of any 

 flagging interest, but because he wanted the time, which was 

 only too limited, for his omnivorous study and work. He 

 was but ^y years of age at the time of his decease, but in 

 that short life he had done an immense amount of original 

 work and research in the order Hemiptera. But for his 

 unfortunate riding accident he would doubtless have risen 

 to great eminence as a Hemipterist. As it is, we have his 

 " Synonymic notes on Aquatic Rhynchota " and " A Guide 

 to the Study of British Waterbugs," which ran through 

 very many numbers of the " Entomologist " up till the year 

 igo6 ; besides many other less important contributions. At 

 the time of his death Kirkaldy was engaged on a catalogue 

 of the Hemiptera ; one volume had been published, a second 

 was in the press, and the third well in hand. 



