274 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
impossible to provide a salary he must really come without one. 
Fortunately, at this moment, Magdalen College began to place an 
annual grant at the disposal of the University for the provision of 
extra assistance in the departments, and it thus became possible to 
appoint an assistant-curatorship, with a small income, augmented 
later on from the Common University Fund. Shelford accepted 
this position, and entered into residence at Oxford in the autumn 
term of 1905. After leaving Kuching, and before returning home by 
way of Japan, Vancouver, and the United States, he spent several 
months travelling in the Malay Archipelago. On June 25th, 1908, 
he married Audrey Gurney, daughter of the Rey. Alfred Richardson, 
vicar of Combe Down, Bath. 
Until his long illness, which began in April, 1909, Shelford’s work 
in Oxford was continued uninterruptedly and with the greatest energy. 
He at once undertook the study of the large collection of Orthoptera 
in the Hope Department, beginning with the Blattcde, which he 
brought into a highly efficient state. In the course of his work upon 
this group he determined and described, in a long series of valuable 
memoirs, the new species in all the great Continental collections, 
with the result that the Hope Department now contains by far the 
finest collection of Blattzxde in the world, and includes types or 
co-types of a large proportion of all the known species. He had also 
begun to work at the other Orthopterous groups, especially the 
Phasmide and Mantide, and, through his influence, the Tetrigine 
(Acridiid@) were worked out by Dr. J. L. Hancock, of Chicago, and 
Gryllacris by Dr. Achille Griffini, of Genoa. He was an indefatigable 
worker, as will be realized by any naturalist who sees what the 
Oxford collection of Blatitude became after only four years’ work. 
A too brief respite in the course of his illness enabled him to return 
for a time and carry on the old work, and, up to the end of 1911, he 
was still able to help the Department in many ways, and also to 
begin a Natural History of Borneo. It is very much to be hoped that 
this work, though incomplete, may be published at no distant date. 
It is sure to be full of observations of the greatest interest to 
naturalists of all kinds. 
When three years old Shelford contracted tubercular disease 
of the hip-joint, as a result of a fall downstairs, and was condemned 
to spend many years on his back. A severe operation was performed 
when he was ten, and at thirteen he was able to leave home and 
reside with a tutor. He was left with a stiff joint, and from time to 
time suffered greatly from sciatica. During his residence in Sarawak 
