Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 1854–1938. Edward Meyrick, one of the most renowned workers on the microlepidoptera of the world, died at his residence, Thornhanger, Marlborough, England, on the 31st March, 1938. He was the son of the Rev. Edward Meyrick and was born at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on November 24th, 1854. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was for 37 years a schoolmaster. He went to Australia in December, 1877, taking up a position in Sydney Grammar School in 1878. During 1882–83 he taught at Christchurch Cathedral Grammar School, New Zealand, but returned to Australia to teach at the King's School, Parramatta, N.S.W., till the end of 1886, when he left for England and became assistant master at his old school, Marlborough College, a post he held until his retirement in 1914. It was in January, 1886, on his return from an entomological trip to the Tableland of Mount Arthur, that the writer of this notice first had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Meyrick. Rather spare and tall in figure, upright, and extremely alert, his personality was most impressive and his manner inspiring. His keen enthusiasm was irresistible. Although searchingly critical, his criticisms never discouraged those he criticised, but induced them to make greater efforts to attain scientific accuracy. His concluding remarks, when commenting on a crude essay on entomological classification written by a young and inexperienced author, may be quoted as characteristic: “You have only made the common error of theorising from insufficient facts and the remedy is to study more facts. Please do not take offence at my plain speaking, which is intended for the benefit of yourself and of science.” Mr. Meyrick's first contribution to our Transactions was read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury on the 4th May, 1882, and appears on page 3 of volume XV. From that time, until his last paper in 1937, a period of 55 years, he regularly contributed articles on New Zealand Lepidoptera, his work in this respect alone probably constituting a record. But it must be borne in mind, in reviewing the activities of so great a worker, that his publications relating to the New Zealand fauna constitute only a very small fraction of his life work, and it is quite beyond the scope of the present notice to give anything more than the briefest possible sketch of his general entomological work. It is estimated that during sixty years of active work at least 20,000 new species were described by Meyrick, as well as many new genera and several new families of Lepidoptera. His output was prodigious. He wrote many papers on the Lepidoptera of Australia, New Zealand (besides those in our Transactions), the South Pacific Islands, Burma and Malaya, India, South Africa and South America, besides his contributions to such works as Wytsman's Genera Insectorum and Junk's Lepidopterorum Catalogus. He made a notable contribution to the knowledge of the Lepidoptera of his native land in A Handbook of British Lepidoptera, published in 1895, of which he issued a revised edition in 1928, now in general use. As the publication of so many descriptions, published in various parts of the world, proved inconvenient, Mr. Meyrick started in March, 1912, his Exotic Microlepidoptera, humorously described in the preface as “a spasmodic entomological magazine on one subject by a single contributor. Of this he issued four complete