ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. Ill 



Mr. Denton was born in Northampton, England, on the 19th of September, 1829. 

 His father was a farmer by occupation, and he was consequently brought up in the 

 country amidst rural scenes and learnt there to love and observe the beauties cf nature. 

 At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a woollen draper and tailor, and spent seven 

 years in thoroughly learning the trade and becoming proficient in all its details. For a 

 few years he was engaged in business on his own account, and in 1855 married Miss Ann 

 Walker, of Somersetshire, England, who survives him. He then emigrated to Canada 

 and settled in London and at once resumed his occupation as a tailor, having but little to 

 begin upon, except a hopeful heart and a thoroughly practical English training. By 

 patient industry, unfailing courtesy and unswerving integrity, he built up by degrees a 

 most successful business as a merchant tailor, and won the respect and esteem of the 

 whole community. 



Living on a farm in his boyhood and apprenticed at so early an age, he had bufe 

 little opportunity of acquiring a literary education, but by constant application and care 

 ful reading he overcame these disadvantages, and attained a more than ordinary knowl- 

 edge of the subjects that interested him. Foremost among these was Entomology, which 

 he studied especially in its economic aspects as affecting live stock, fruit trees, garden and 

 field crops. He became an authority on these topics and was frequently called upon to 

 address meetings of farmers and fruit growers and give them the benefit of his knowledge 

 and experience. His love of the farm continued throughout his life and he dr voter! much 

 of the time that he could spare from business to the cultivation of a fru farm a few 

 miles from London. He was no mean authority upon horses and Cittl * ail h vi a con 

 siderable knowledge of their diseases and most satisfactory treatment. He was also an 

 adept with the microscope and took great delight in searching into the hidden beauties of 

 nature. 



When the London branch of the Entomological Society was formed in July, 1864, 

 he was one of the original members, and took a most active interest in it and the parent 

 Society to the close of his life. He was elected Vice-President of the London branch in 

 1872, and President in 1878 and several years following. In 1871, he became a member 

 of the Council of the parent Society -and continued to hold office for five and twenty 

 years; in 1892 he was elected Vice-President, but he would never allow himself to be 

 nominated for the Presidency, though urged to do so more than once. He was also an 

 active member of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association and gave much assistance to 

 its work. 



He was a man of deep religious feelings and of earnest but unobtrusive piety. 

 Though a leader of the Plymouth Brethren, he never obtruded his views upon those who 

 differed from him. The writer knew him well for a great number of years, and during 

 his visits to London often enjoyed his hospitality, but never did he hear a word fall from 

 his lips that could wound in the slightest degree the susceptibilities of those who did not 

 accept the theological opinions that were so dear to him. He was a good, honest, 

 sterling man, whom all respected and whom his friends loved ; kind, charitable and 

 generous ; courteous in manner, most hospitable in his home, above reproach in business ; 

 a man who is a distinct loss to the city in which he lived, and whose death creates a blank 

 in the hearts of his friends which can never in this life be filled. To his childless, sor- 

 rowing widow we tender our deepest, sincerest svmpathy. 



C. J. S. B. 



Captain J. Gamble Geddes. 



It is our painful duty to record the loss of another active member of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario. A 2 o'clock on Good Friday morning, April the 3rd, Captain 

 J. Gamble Geddes died after a few days' illness brought on by a severe cold. He was 

 born in Montreal in 1850 and educated there. When a young man he entered the service 

 of the Molsons Bank and was for some time attached to the office in London. He at 

 once joined the Society and became an enthusiastic member. In 1874 he was elected 

 Secretary-Treasurer of the London Branch ; in 1875 Vice-President; and in 1876 Presi- 



