220 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



been made. In 1910 the Insecta was translated into Bussian. 

 In 1912 the Entom. Soc. of London, with the assistance of the 

 Royal Society, brought out as Part III of the Transactions 

 The Comparative Anatomy of the Male Genital Tube in Coleoptera 

 by Sharp & Muir, an exhaustive treatise of 166 pages, and 37 

 plates. All the families were examined, and the results of the 

 multitudinous dissections are given in detail. This work is of 

 first-rate importance. 



Perhaps, however, the annual volume of the Zoological Record, 

 published by the Zoological Society, is the work for which most 

 credit should be given. This is a list of the publications for the 

 year in all branches of Zoology, British and foreign, classified 

 under the headings of author and subject. Sharp was editor for 

 the whole and recorder also for insects. No one, unless he has 

 seen something of the work involved, can imagine the amount 

 of detail to be sifted, and the care and knowledge required to 

 prevent errors. He entered on this work, which was to some 

 extent a labour of love, in 189'2, and his methodical treatment 

 of the publication greatly improved it in every way. This work 

 he continued till the year of his death, even completing the 

 reading of the final proofs of records for 1920 during his last 

 illness. 



When quite young — about seventeen or eighteen — Sharp went 

 with his father to Switzerland, and greatly enjoyed the trip. 

 More than once in later days he went to stay with Oberthur in 

 France. The loss of his friend G. E. Crotch, Librarian to the 

 University of Cambridge, was a great grief to him. They had 

 been closely associated in entomological work, and had made 

 several excursions together — to the New Forest, to Eannoch, and 

 to Spain. Sharp often spoke of the primitive conditions in years 

 gone by to be found in the New Forest and in Scotland, and told 

 amusing stories of their difficulties in the way of procuring food 

 and lodgings. With another friend, Bishop, he visited Sherwood 

 Forest, and the last letter he wrote during his illness was to this 

 friend, who died only so recently as 26 August last. 



Sharp knew most of the British naturalists of his time — 

 Huxley, Bates, Wallace, Buchanan White, etc. He was a great 

 friend of Spencer, and in 1904 wrote an article in the Zoologist, 

 entitled The Place of Herbert Spencer in Biology, having particular 

 reference to him in connection with the teachings of Charles 

 Darwin. 



In Brockenhurst Sharp worked assiduously with one of his 

 daughters (now Mrs. Muir) in his entomological laboratory 

 elucidating the life-story or the anatomy of numberless insects, 

 chiefly Coleoptera, or adding to his extremely valuable collection 

 of British beetles, which we understand passes to Mrs. Muir. 

 His interest, however, seemed to grow less when working alone, 

 especially during the last year or two of his life. To the last 



