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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. 14. OCTOBER, 1913. No. 4. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



(Read before the Society, Sept. loth, 1913). 



HUGH LAMONT ORR. 



By R. welch. 



Hugh Laniont Orr, a keen conchologist and an old member of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, on the committee of which he had 

 served for many years, passed away on April 14th, 19 13, at Belfast. 



A fine amateur workman both in wood and metal, Mr. Orr was a 

 very helpful friend to many a naturalist, young and old, and the 

 Public Museum at Belfast contains many finely made cases of wasps' 

 nests and other natural history specimens donated by him. He had 

 been engaged on a local list of the wild bees and wasps of the north- 

 east of Ireland for years past, and was a well-known figure on the 

 hillsides, and in the glens and old woods of Louth, Antrim, and 

 North Down. Mr. Orr became a member of the Conchological 

 Society many years ago, and was a regular exhibitor in this branch 

 at meetings of the Belfast Club named above, especially at their 

 annual conversazione. 



D. D. BALDWIN. 



[We are indebted to The Nattlihis for the following details as to Messrs. 

 Baldwin and Taylor. — En.]. 



David Dwight Baldwin was born at Honolulu, on November 26th, 

 1 83 1. He entered Yale College in 1853, graduated there with 

 honours in 1857, and in the same year married a Miss Morris, whose 

 acquaintance he had made during his college course. On returning 

 to Hawaii he became principal of Lahaina School ; but after seven 

 years of school work he became interested in the cultivation of sugar 

 cane, and was for seven years manager of a large plantation. Subse- 

 quently he resumed his old profession, and in 1877 was appointed 

 Inspector-General of Schools, and it may be mentioned that under 

 his regime the number of schools in which English was the basis of 



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