﻿XIV 
  

  

  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  him, 
  collected 
  by 
  his 
  father's 
  first 
  cousin, 
  Sir 
  Sydney 
  Smith 
  Saunders,* 
  Consul- 
  

   General 
  in 
  Albania. 
  He 
  took 
  the 
  greatest 
  interest 
  in 
  Sir 
  Sydney's 
  collection 
  

   at 
  Oxford, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  last 
  pieces 
  of 
  work 
  was 
  a 
  careful 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  

   whole 
  of 
  the 
  determinations. 
  It 
  is 
  unnecessary 
  here 
  to 
  do 
  more 
  than 
  refer 
  

   to 
  the 
  great 
  series 
  of 
  papers 
  on 
  the 
  Palaearctic 
  Aculeates. 
  Of 
  "his 
  grand 
  

   work, 
  ' 
  The 
  Hymenoptera-Aculeata 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Isles 
  ' 
  (1896)," 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  

   well 
  said 
  (1) 
  that 
  it 
  " 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  few 
  without 
  which 
  no 
  serious 
  Hymeno- 
  

   pterist 
  thinks 
  his 
  working-library 
  complete, 
  and 
  that 
  its 
  merits 
  have 
  been 
  

   acknowledged 
  in 
  the 
  warmest 
  terms 
  by 
  everyone 
  at 
  home 
  or 
  abroad 
  who 
  is 
  

   competent 
  to 
  form 
  an 
  opinion 
  upon 
  it." 
  

  

  Edward 
  Saunders 
  realised 
  the 
  importance 
  of 
  writing 
  simply 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  

   stimulate 
  the 
  interest 
  of 
  beginners, 
  and 
  with 
  this 
  object 
  published 
  in 
  1908 
  an 
  

   introduction 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Wild 
  Bees, 
  Wasps, 
  Ants, 
  etc. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  a 
  pleasure 
  to 
  his 
  friends 
  to 
  arrange 
  that 
  his 
  collections 
  are 
  bestowed, 
  

   as 
  he 
  would 
  have 
  wished, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  accessible 
  to 
  the 
  student 
  — 
  the 
  

   Aculeates 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  the 
  Hemiptera 
  in 
  the 
  Hope 
  Department 
  of 
  

   the 
  Oxford 
  University 
  Museum. 
  

  

  He 
  joined 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  in 
  1865, 
  was 
  Treasurer 
  1880-1890, 
  

   and 
  a 
  Vice-President 
  in 
  five 
  sessions, 
  the 
  last 
  in 
  1907. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  great 
  disap- 
  

   pointment 
  to 
  his 
  friends, 
  and 
  indeed 
  to 
  the 
  whole 
  Society, 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  

   never 
  consent 
  to 
  be 
  nominated 
  for 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  President 
  — 
  an 
  election 
  that 
  

   would 
  have 
  been 
  received 
  with 
  pleasure 
  and 
  pride. 
  He 
  felt 
  that, 
  in 
  the 
  

   state 
  of 
  his 
  health, 
  it 
  was 
  imprudent 
  to 
  bind 
  himself 
  to 
  attend 
  the 
  evening 
  

   meetings, 
  although 
  the 
  present 
  writer 
  was 
  led 
  by 
  some 
  words 
  used 
  by 
  

   Saunders, 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  being 
  strongly 
  urged 
  to 
  accept 
  the 
  nomination, 
  to 
  

   think 
  that 
  he 
  cherished 
  the 
  vain 
  hope 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  at 
  some 
  future 
  time 
  

   become 
  stronger 
  and 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  consent. 
  

  

  He 
  became 
  E.L.S. 
  in 
  1869, 
  F.K.S. 
  in 
  1905. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  only 
  by 
  a 
  wonderful 
  power 
  of 
  concentration, 
  the 
  rigid 
  economy 
  of 
  

   time, 
  and 
  the 
  utmost 
  use 
  of 
  his 
  limited 
  strength 
  that 
  one, 
  whose 
  daylight 
  

   hours 
  were 
  nearly 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  occupied 
  with 
  the 
  cares 
  of 
  business 
  in 
  the 
  

   Boyal 
  Exchange, 
  could 
  do 
  so 
  much 
  minute 
  and 
  accurate 
  work 
  and 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  

   give 
  such 
  constant 
  and 
  most 
  efficient 
  help 
  to 
  less 
  experienced 
  students. 
  He 
  

   must 
  have 
  had 
  great 
  insight 
  into 
  potential 
  qualities, 
  for 
  one 
  at 
  least 
  of 
  

   his 
  correspondents 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  schoolboy 
  stage 
  of 
  his 
  career 
  as 
  a 
  Hymeno- 
  

   pterist 
  when 
  Edward 
  Saunders 
  began 
  to 
  devote 
  to 
  him 
  a 
  considerable 
  share 
  

   of 
  his 
  scanty 
  time 
  (p. 
  xvi). 
  

  

  With 
  this 
  power 
  of 
  concentration 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  require 
  to 
  be 
  alone, 
  but 
  could 
  

   work 
  surrounded 
  by 
  his 
  family, 
  although 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  mistake 
  to 
  suppose 
  that 
  he 
  

   had 
  no 
  study 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  (1). 
  He 
  was, 
  however, 
  rather 
  cramped' 
  for 
  want 
  of 
  

   space, 
  for 
  I 
  remember 
  his 
  special 
  request 
  that 
  specimens 
  should 
  be 
  sent 
  to 
  

   him 
  in 
  small 
  boxes, 
  and 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  large 
  and 
  heavy 
  ones 
  which 
  

   belonged 
  to 
  his 
  father 
  and 
  cousin. 
  

  

  * 
  Died 
  April 
  15, 
  1884. 
  1 
  E. 
  M. 
  M.,' 
  1883-4, 
  p. 
  278 
  ; 
  ' 
  Entomologist,' 
  1884, 
  p. 
  117. 
  

  

  