100 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



He was well known in the hunting field and was often seen with 

 the Crawley and Horsham hounds, of which pack his brother was the 

 Master. 



The writer of the notice in the EntovwloghU' Monthly Magazine 

 says well when he writes " Godman will need no other memorial than 

 the Biologia." This is absolutely true, for that is a monument of care 

 and work and research that will last. 



One cannot, however, close this short obituary without some 

 comment on the man himself— so modest, one might almost say 

 retiring, yet ever ready to impart his knowledge and experience to others 

 when they sought it, a great patron of our science and withal so 

 gentle and the truest of friends. — G. T. B.-B. 



Sydney Webb. 



The announcement of the decease of Sydney Webb of Dover brings 

 to mind associations of long ago. About the year 1872-3, as a 

 youthful member I joined the " Holmesdale Natural History Club," 

 which held its monthly meetings in the Public Hall, Eeigate. The 

 President and doyen of that Society was then that notable patron of 

 nature study, the late Wilson Saunders, and associated with him in 

 the Society Vv'ere John Linnell, jun., son of the famous John Linnell, 

 Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, a Hymenopterist of the Albanian 

 Consular Service, Thos. Cooper, one of the early collectors of South 

 Africa and a noted Cactus grower, Dr. Bossy, a microscopist of note, 

 and last but not least in the group of naturalists was the late Sydney 

 Webb. His favourite study was the Lepidoptera, of which he then had 

 a good representative local collection, but he often exhibited fossils, 

 plants, and insects of other orders, in fact anything of local natural 

 history interest. It was in these surroundings that I first became 

 acquainted with him as a kind and genial friend, one who gave freely 

 of his knowledge and specimens to a youngster in earnest. In a 

 Report, which lies before me, under date October 13th, 1865, Sydney 

 Webb is included as exhibiting the eggs of the Lace-wing Fly. At that 

 time, 1865, J. A. Brewer, the author of the " Flora of Surrey," was 

 the Secretary. Without business occupation and with such scientific 

 inclination and surroundings, in a district where geological formations 

 of Chalks, Greensands, and Wealden clays, with their accompanying 

 variety of flora and fauna, were within walking distance or at least' 

 approachable by railway north, south, east, and west, it was easy to 

 foretell that Webb became a thorough good all-round naturalist. Even 

 in the seventies his " Tigers " were a sight, and with the early death 

 of his brothers, and finally his father's death, ample means were at 

 hand for him in the last decades of the 19th century to acquire series 

 and collections which would enrich his ovrn, in which many historic 

 specimens will doubtless be found. Never robust in health, for many 

 years he had lived at Dover, doing but little field work, and his natural 

 disinclination to appear in print has left but little from his pen. Many 

 of the present generation knew him as a frequenter of " Stevens" rooms 

 up till a few years ago, and to the Congresses of the South Eastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies, when held in Dover and Folkestone, he 

 was ready with his personal aid so far as he could. He was 88 years 

 of age at the time of his death. — H. J. T. 



