THE LATE JOSEPH WILLIAM DUNNING. 
Mr. J. W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., etc., died suddenly on Friday, 
the 15th October last, at his residence, 4, Talbot Square, Hyde © 
Park, London, W. Born at Leeds in the year 1833, he was - 
educated privately under tutors until 1851, when he entered 
Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained a Classical Scholar- 
ship in 1855, took his B.A. degree in 1856, and after pro- 
ceeding to the degree of M.A. in 1859 was shortly afterwards 
elected a Fellow of his college. In January 1855, he was 
admitted a law student, and on the 26th January, 1861, he 
was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincolns 
nn. From that time until about five years ago, he enjoyed 
a considerable practice as an equity draftsman and conveyancer 
at 12, Old Square, London. About seven years ago Mr. Dunning 
had a paralytic stroke, which partially deprived him of speech 
and obliged him to retire from the practice of his profession, 
and a second stroke, which he had on the 1 5th October, was the 
cause of his deat 
In his early boyhood, Mr. Dunning was an enthusiastic 
collector of lepidoptera, and his name is familiar to most ento- 
mologists as being one of the first to capture, in this country, 
Agrophila sulphuralis (now known as Zmmelza trabealis). Speak- 
ing of this species, Mr. Stainton, in his ‘Manual,’ says it ‘used to 
be a great rarity, but a schoolboy, spending his midsummer — 
holidays at Brandon, having taken it, this insect found its way 
into all our Rae ae and Mr, Dunning ‘‘awoke and found 
himself famous. 
“Mr. Dunning Soinied the Entomological Society in 1849, when 
a lad of 16 years of age; the Linnean Society in 1860, and the © 
an _ Zoological Society in 1864. He was Secretary to the Ento- 
mological Society from January 1862 to January 1871, and was 
Vice-President several times, namely, in 1875 under the Presi- 
dency of Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, in 1877 under Professor 
Westwood, in 1879 under Sir John Lubbock, in 1885 under | 
Mr. McLachlan, and again in 1890 under Lord Walsingham. 
In 1883 and 1884, he was President of the Society. 
It is believed that Mr. Dunning had not many opportunities 
of giving attention to field natural history after his early boy- 
hood, and his contributions to the Transactions and Proceedings 
4 oor the Entomological Society are not numerous, but his presi- 
 Fanaasy 1898. 
_ dential addresses were admirable in point of style. He was 
. the compiler and editor, or at least one Nee the most ide a 
