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DR. G. B. LONGSTAFF died on May 7, after a long period of failing health, at his residence, Highlands, Putney Heath. Dr. Longstaff was born on February 2, 1849, and educated at Rugby and at New College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship and a first class in natural science. At a very early age his attention was attracted to the study of insects, mainly-through the influence of his uncle by marriage, William Spence, of “Kirby and Spence's Introduction to Entomology”; and he was already recognised as one of the moat energetic and successful of the younger lepidopterists of his time, when a regrettable accident in the second term of his residence at Oxford, which resulted in the loss of an eye, put an end to his activities in this direction for many years. His later career at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was awarded the Mead medal, was highly distinguished, and in later life, besides taking an active part in philanthropic and municipal work, he represented Wandsworth on the London County Council for fourteen successive years.
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Dr. G. B. Longstaff. Nature 107, 401 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107401a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107401a0