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and Parasitology, with a staff of professors and assistants highly 
qualified for the special work of the school. The building includes a 
_ museum and lecture theatre. The efficiency and completeness of the 
school was rendered possible by the foresight and liberality of the late 
Sir A. L. Jones, who fully recognised its value to the empire. 
Professor Newstead and his assistants then shewed the members of 
the Society over the building and made the following special 
exhibits :— 
Mosquitoes (a) Stegomyia fasciata, a Culicine mosquito responsible 
for the transmission of yellow fever. Examples of the fly were shown 
and a case illustrating phases in the life-history of the species. (0) 
Anopheles maculipennis and other Anopheline mosquitoes concerned in 
the spread of malaria. (c) Living larve of the rot-hole breeding 
mosquitoes, Anopheles plumbeus and Ochlerotatus geniculatus, which had 
been taken from the water in rot-holes in trees at Aigburth and other 
districts near Liverpool. 
Tsetse flies :—A large collection, containing all the known species 
of Glossina, was on view. The most important species are Glossina 
palpalis chiefly responsible for the transmission of sleeping sickness, 
and Glossina morsitans which spreads trypanosomiasis among horses 
and cattle. 
Acarids” affecting flour.—Specimens of the Acarid Alewrobius 
farinosae and samples of flour in various stages of deterioration owing © 
to infestation with this mite. 
Plague fleas.—Specimens of the Indian plague flea, Xenopsylla 
cheopis, and the common rat flea of temperate countries, Ceratophyllus 
fasciatus, were shown. 
Tabanidae.—A collection of blood-sucking flies of the family 
Tadanidae, chiefly African species was on view. 
BITUARY. 
William West (of Greenwich), 
By the death of William West there passes away one who was 
known to a past generation of entomologists as well as to many of 
those of the present time. When Newman and Stainton were the 
mentors of entomological work W. West was actively collecting ; we 
hear of him as a regular attendant of the former’s ‘‘ at homes” on 
Friday evenings in the sixties, and he was a frequenter of Stainton’s 
famous Burnt Ash Lane, now no longer a “ locality’ for entomolo- 
gists. He was one of the small circle of friends at these meetings 
whose efforts founded, in 1872, that well known and popular Society, 
the “‘South London,” with Messrs. J. Platt-Barrett, Bowden, C. G. 
Champion, and a few others. Unlike many who have passed 
through the membership of this Society, he continued from first 
to last to take the same -enthusiastic interest with which he 
helped to found it so many years ago, for only some six or seven years 
ago he put forward the proposal to hold a second Annual Exhibition 
to be devoted to ‘other orders” exclusive of Lepidoptera, a scheme 
which his energy made a successful innovation. As the “ South Lon- 
don”’ grew it became necessary to have a reference collection, and who 
could be a better keeper than the plodding, steady, field-worker W. 
West. He became the Hon. Curator of the Society, and the Honorary 
and honoured Curator of the Society he remained until the day of his 
