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solicitor, and was born near Finsbury Square on June 10th, 1850. His father died 

 before the subject of this notice was one year old, and it is reported that the youngest 

 son was for many years of an extremely delicate constitution. H. Fryer's taste for 

 Natural History developed early, and before he was eighteen he had formed a very 

 considerable collection of British Lepidoptera. His brother, Mr. W. B. Pryer (now 

 of British North Borneo), who is equally known as a naturalist, left England for 

 China in 1865, and was followed by him in 1871 ; but H. Fryer's stay in China was 

 short. He was offered a position in Japan, which became his home, for he never 

 revisited Europe, but intended to do so this or next year. With the exception of a 

 short time, during which he held an oiEcial position at the University of Tokio, 

 Mr. Fryer was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and at the time of his death he was 

 in partnership with Mr. James Bisset, F.L.S., also a naturalist, but more especially 

 attached to Botany. 



During his long residence in Japan, Mr. Fryer travelled over the greater part of 

 the islands, and visited the Asiatic mainland. He also made an excursion to Borneo 

 to meet his brother. And quite recently he explored the Loo-Choo (or Ryu-Kyu) 

 islands, and engaged a Japanese collector to supplement his own researches. He did 

 good work in all departments of Japanese Entomology, but especially so in 

 Lepidoptera, upon which he published many notes both in Japan and here, sometimes 

 marred by a slight absence of method. His biological observations on Japanese 

 Butterflies are of the greatest importance. Quite recently he projected a Monograph 

 of the Butterflies, under the title " Ehopalocera Mhonica," a work unique of its 

 kind, executed entirely in Japan, with the text in the vernacular and in English. 

 One part has appeared, and we understand the second (of the three proposed) was 

 in the press at the time of his death. 



Mr. Fryer apparently discovered the method of making himself popular 

 both with the Japanese and the European residents. Many Englishmen have done 

 (and will no doubt yet do) much towards the investigation of the Natural History 

 of Japan ; Mr. Fryer will not be forgotten at the reckoning. He joined the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1867. In 1878 he was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the Zoological Society, in recognition of the services he had rendered by 

 forwarding living Japanese animals to the gardens. 



Eor some particulars as to his early life we have to thank his brother-in-law, 

 Mr. F. C. Wormald. 



The Sotjth London Entomolo&ical and Nattjeal History Society : 

 March 22nd, 1888.— T. E. Billtjps, Esq., F.E.S., Fresident, in the Chair. 



Messrs. E. Enight, C. J. Montague, J. E. Lloyd, W. Eoots, and R. Pierpoint 

 were elected Members. 



Mr. E. South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus Phlceas, L., with ocellus on 

 under-surface of left wing similar in character to the marginal ocelli on the under- 

 surface of anterior-wings, and an example of Fapilio Bianor, with a patch of the 

 colour and ornamentation proper to the under-surface of hind-wings on the under- 

 Burface of the right fore-wing. The Folyommatus was captured by Mr. South in 

 N. Devon, 1881, and the Fapilio by Mr. Leech's collector in China, 1887. Mr. Tutt, 



