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others. However, after his short residence in London he was 

 offered a post as medical officer in the Crichton Asylum at 

 Dumfries, which led to his taking charge of a case at Thornhill 

 in the neighbourhood, where he joined the Dumfriesshire and 

 Galloway Scientific, Natural History, and Antiquarian Society 

 upon its reconstruction in 1876. This engagement gave him 

 the leisure he desired for prosecuting the studies on which his 

 heart was set, and it was during this period that he published 

 some of his earlier papers. Here also his marriage took place. 

 On the death of his patient about 1882 he returned to England 

 and went to live at Southampton, but, finding it too far from 

 London, after about two years he removed to Dartford. In 1885 

 he was invited to go to Cambridge as Curator of the University 

 Museum. There he spent the next nineteen years of his life, 

 till in 1904 he retired to Brockenhurst, where he had built a 

 residence, Lawnside, on the very edge of the New Forest, facing 

 the extensive heath of Black Knowl. Here he resided till his 

 death on 27 August, 1922. 



In 1862 Sharp became a Fellow of the Entomological Society 

 of London and he was its President in 1887 and 1888, his 

 presidential address being at the end of the former year on the 

 subject of entomological collections, and of the latter on the 

 senses of insects with special reference to that of sight. Between 

 1889 and 1903 he was on several occasions a vice-president, and 

 he was on the Council from 1893-1895 and from 1902-1904. 

 While living in London he was Secretary to the Society during 

 1867. In 1886 he became a Fellow of the Zoological Society, 

 and he was on the Council from 1901-1905. The Linnean 

 Society is also able to claim him as a Fellow since 1888 ; and he 

 was connected by membership or correspondence with the chief 

 entomological societies throughout the world. The high distinc- 

 tion of being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society fell to his lot 

 in 1890, and the next year the University of Cambridge conferred 

 on him the degree of Master of Arts, honoris causa. 



David Sharp was the author of a very great number of papers 

 and larger works. Being connected with the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine and the Entomologist, in either an editorial 

 or a reference capacity, many of his numerous shorter papers 

 appear in these magazines, and others in similar ones. Yet 

 others, as well as some of his more pretentious papers, will be 

 found in the transactions of societies with which he was con- 

 nected. Perhaps his earliest contribution to entomological 

 literature was a paper on the British species of Agathidium 

 (Coleoptera) read before the Entomological Society of London on 

 6 November 1865. An interesting discussion on heredity and 

 kindred subjects between Sharp and Wallace, arising in connec- 

 tion with Westwood's introduction of the subject of " mimicry" 

 at the Evntom. Soc. of London in November 1866, was reported in 



