OBITUARY. 



The following obituary notice, headed "William 

 Ambridge Luff, F.E.S.," appears in the Entomologist's 

 Hecord : — 



A large circle of entomologists will hear with great regret 

 that William Ambridge Luff is gone from us. He died 

 at his residence, La Chaumiere, Guernsey, on Thursday, 19th 

 May, aged 59. From an early childhood he was ardently 

 attached to the study of Nature, saving his pence for the 

 purchase of collecting apparatus. His life was one of singu- 

 lar energy, though outwardly remarkable for quiet manner 

 and unruffled calm. Very early, by the death of his father, 

 he was called upon to take the responsibility of an important 

 cabinet maker's and upholsterer's business, and the practical 

 fatherhood of his younger brothers and sisters. This is not 

 the place to speak of his personal character, but it is not too 

 much to say that he was held in universal respect and esteem 

 by all who were privileged to know him. He leaves a widow, 

 two sons and a daughter to mourn his loss. As a citizen he 

 took an interest in public affairs, and has held various impor- 

 tant offices in what in Guernsey is equivalent to municipal 

 government. He was a valued member of the council of that 

 excellent institution the Guille-Alles Library, and a chief 

 influence in the founding of the Guernsey Society of Natural 

 Science and Local Research, of which, from its initiation 

 to the day of his death, he was Hon. Treasurer. He was 

 elected President at the fifteenth annual meeting of the 

 Society, a post which is tenable for two years, and delivered 

 his address on retiring on December 19, 1900. He had 

 amassed vast collections of local insects in nearly every 

 department of entomology, and it is to be hoped that these 

 may be retained intact and held in competent keeping for the 



