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OBITUARY NOTICES. 



It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of one of the founders of our 

 Society and its first President, Prof. Henry Croft. He died at Hermanitas, Texas, on the 

 28th of April, of dropsy, aged sixty-three years. Ever since the organization of our 

 Society he has taken the deepest interest in its welfare. Early in life while in Europe 

 he was an ardent collector, devoting most of his attention to Hymenoptera ; but after 

 accepting the position of Professor of Chemistry in the University of Toronto, which he 

 filled with much credit for many years, his time was so fully occupied with his professional 

 duties as to leave him but little opportunity for entomological pursuits. Yet he never 

 lost his interest in this, his favourite department of natural history. For many years 

 past his eyesight had failed to such an extent as to prevent his collecting, and his health 

 also was too poor to permit of it. Several years ago he resigned his position in the Uni- 

 versity and removed to Texas with his family, with the hope of benefiting his health. 

 His death was quite unexpected. One of his much esteemed colleagues thus writes of 

 him : " His last letter to me, written about ten days before his death, showed much of 

 his old interest in natural history, some of his familiar humour, and a kindly interest in 

 his friends here. I look back with pleasure on many years of work with him as a 

 colleague. I ever found him genuinely straightforward, guileless and upright." His 

 memory will ever be cherished by those of us who knew him well as a kind and disinter- 

 ested friend. 



CHARLES ARNOLD, 



of Paris, Ontario, died after a short illness on the 15th day of April, 1883. Although 

 not an active worker in the entomological field, he was a close observer of the habits of 

 insects, especially such as are injurious to agriculture and horticulture, and in this way a 

 most useful member of our Society. He was quiet and unobtrusive, but his work, espe- 

 cially as a hybridist, made him widely known. He originated many good varieties of 

 fruits, cereals and other useful plants, some of which are much appreciated. Few men 

 have done so much good in so quiet a way. 



PROF. TOWNEND GLOVER, 



long so well known as Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, 

 died on the 8th of September from an attack of apoplexy, at the house of his adopted 

 daughter in Baltimore, in his seventy-first year. He was a most careful and painstaking ob- 

 server, a good draughtsman and an excellent engraver, and employed his every spare moment 

 in producing figures of American insects. In the preparation of these plates his industry 

 was incessant, and the wonder is how, in one short life, he could have accomplished so 

 much. The plates, with the accompanying notes, have been purchased by the United 

 States Government, and it is hoped that they will be published in sufficient number to 

 admit of their being available to educational institutions and students of entomology 

 throughout the country. A complete set of his beautiful works, of which only fifteen 

 copies are extant, have been secured for the library of our Society. He was an honorary 

 member of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and ever felt a deep interest in our 

 work. 



V. T. CHAMBERS, 



a valued contributor to the pages of the Canadian Entomologist, died on the 7th of 

 August, his fifty-second birthday, at his home in Covington, Kentucky. He laboured 

 long and ardently on the micro-lepidoptera, and in his numerous descriptions of species 

 and careful notes on their habits, has left behind him an enduring monument. He began 

 a series of papers on micros in the third volume of our journal, published in 1871, pub- 

 lishing ten papers before the end of that year. These were followed by twelve papers in 

 volume iv., nine in vol. v., ten in vol. vi., nine in volume vii., seven in vol. viii., ten in 

 vol ix., four in vol. x., four in vol. xi., one in vol. xii., two in vol. xiii., and one in vol. 

 xiv., seventy-eight papers in all, besides a few communications on other entomological sub- 

 jects. His writings have added greatly to the interest and value of our journal, and we 

 hall miss him much. 



