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M R. HENRY JOHN ELWES passed away on lMl November 26, after a life full of activities spread over seventy-six years. Born heir to landed property and great wealth, his life at first promised to be that of the typical English gentleman. He was sent to school at Eton, and served for five years in the Scots Guards; afterwards he became one of the greatest travellers of modern times, led on by his love of natural history, entomology, horticulture, trees, and big game shooting. He visited Asia Minor, Tibet, Nepal, India, China, Formosa, Siberia, Caucasia, North and South America, and most if not all the countries of Europe. As a landowner. he was interested in sheep, and studied all the various breeds. He rendered important services to entomology by his enormous collections, which are now housed at South Kensington. He was a keen gardener, and introduced many beautiful and rare plants, a considerable number of which are figured in the Botanical Magazine. His “Monograph of the Genus Lilium” is a standard work. He aided several of the great scientific societies in many ways, and became president of the Royal Entomological Society of London and of the Royal English Arboricultural Society.
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H. J. Elwes, F.R.S. Nature 110, 780–781 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110780b0
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