ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 105 



OBITUARY. 



Professor J. Hotes Panton, M.A., F.G.S. 



It is our sad duty to record the death of Professor Panton, which took place at 

 Guelph, on the 3rd of February, 1898, after a long and very painful illness, which he 

 bore with the utmost patience and resignation. He was born at Cupar, in Pifeshire, 

 Scotland, and was brought out to Canada when a child ; his father settled in Toronto at 

 first, and removed, after some years, to Oshawa. He was educated at the Whitby High 

 School and Toronto University, where he graduated with honors in Natural Science in 

 1877. The following year he was appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, but after a few years resigned the position and removed to Winni- 

 peg, where he became principal of the Collegiate Institute. In 1885 he accepted the 

 invitation of the Ontario Government and returned to Guelph, where he filled the position 

 of Professor of Natural History and Geology in the Agricultural College till the time of 

 his death. His work there had special relation to economic entomology and botany, on 

 which subjects he issued many useful bulletins to farmers and fruit growers. He also 

 published two small works on Ejonomic Geology and "Insect Foes," which are valuable 

 manuals of an elementary character. In 1896 Professor Panton attended for the first 

 time the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, though he had long 

 been a member, and on that occasion read very interesting and useful papers on "Entom- 

 ology for Rural Schools " and " Two Insect Pests of 1896 — the Army Worm and the 

 Tussock Moth." At the annual meeting in October, 1897, he was elected vice-president 

 of the Society, but was unable to attend owiDg to the illness which had already seized 

 upon him. The following resolution of condolence was adopted at a meeting of the 

 Council held in March : " The members of the Council of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario have heard with profound regret of the death of their highly respected colleague 

 and vice-president, J. Hoyes Panton, M.A., F.G.S. , Professor of Biology and Geology in 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph They desire to place on record ^heir admira- 

 tion for his talents and attainments in natural science, and their deep sense of the loss 

 which economic entomology in this Province sustained by his removal in the maturity of 

 his powers and at an age when he was capable of performing much usefal work. They 

 beg to ofier to Mrs. Panton and family their respectful sympathy in the great bereave- 

 ment which has befallen them." 



On the 18th of February, 1898, Mr. Johnson Pettit died at Buffalo, NY, and was 

 buried a few days later at Grimsby, Ont. For many years Mr. Pettit was a most diligent 

 and successful collector of Ooleoptera in the neighborhood of Grimsby, and was well 

 known amongst entomo^gists both in this country and the United States. After form- 

 ing a very complete collection of the beetles of Ontario so far as known at that time, he 

 gave up the pursuit and turned his attention to geology. Subsequently he sold his cab- 

 inet of insects to the Entomological Society of Ontario at a nominal price, in order that 

 it might be kept in a place of safety and preserved from destruction. His work was 

 characterized by remarkable neatness and painstaking accuracy. 



Professor David Simons Kellicott was born at Hastings Centre, Oswego County, 

 N.Y., January 28, 1842, and died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, April 13, 1898. In 

 his boyhood his frail constitution and delicate health required him to spend much of his 

 time out of doors, and it is to this, no doubt, that in part at least his love for nature may 

 be traced. He graduated from Syracuse University with the degree of B. Sc, while the 

 institution was yet known as Genesee College, teaching one year in Southern Ohio prior 

 to his graduation. After graduating, he taught one year in Kingston < Normal School, 

 Pennsylvania, after which he was connected for seventeen years with the State Univer- 

 sity, at Buffalo, N.Y., being Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and also Professor of 

 Botany and Microscopy. He came to the Ohio State University in 1888, where, for ten 

 years, he has occupied the chair of zoology and entomology. At the time of his death he 



