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ings ' of the Society. He died at Chelsea in the spring of the pre- 

 sent year at an advanced age. 



Mr. George Samouelle was brought up to the business of a book- 

 seller, and was for several years an assistant in the establishment of 

 Messrs. Longman and Co. He early imbibed a taste for natural 

 history, and more especially for entomology, and became an assi- 

 duous collector of British insects. In 1819 he published a work en- 

 titled ' The Entomologist's Useful Compendium, or an Introduction 

 to the Knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of 

 obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the Apparatus 

 generally used ; together with the genera of Linne, and the modern 

 method of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Spiders, Mites 

 and Insects, from their affinities and structure, according to the views 

 of Dr. Leach. Also, an explanation of the terms used in Entomo- 

 logy ; a Calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of 

 near 3000 species of British Insects ; with instructions for collecting 

 and fitting up objects for the Microscope. Illustrated with twelve 

 plates,' 8vo, Lond. In this work, the multifarious nature of which 

 may be inferred from the title-page, Mr. Samouelle furnished the 

 British entomologist with a careful and valuable compilation, and 

 added moreover numerous original observations calculated to be 

 useful to the collector ; but the greater part of the work, as well as 

 the most important in a scientific point of view, was derived from 

 the MSS. of Dr. Leach, which were freely communicated to the 

 author. This work was followed by • General Directions for col- 

 lecting and preserving Exotic Insects and Crustacea,' ISmo, Lond., 

 1826. Soon after the publication of his 'Compendium' Mr. Sa- 

 mouelle became an assistant in the Natural History Department of 

 the British Museum, and was chiefly employed for many years in the 

 care and arrangement of the entomological collections of that esta- 

 blishment. In 1832 he commenced the publication of an illustrated 

 periodical, entitled ' The Entomological Cabinet ; being a Natural 

 History of British Insects,' of which he completed two annual vo- 

 lumes. He afterwards issued two numbers of a second series of the 

 same work, but not meeting with sufficient encouragement he pro- 

 ceeded no farther. In 1836 he also published two numbers of a 

 second edition of his ' Entomologist's Useful Compendium,' but this 

 undertaking fell to the ground from the same cause. He was elected 

 an Associate of the Linnsean Society in 1818, and died at Lambeth 

 in the spring of the present year. 



His principal work was highly useful at the time of its appearance, 

 following as it did on the two introductory volumes of Messrs. Kirby 

 and Spence, and affording to the numerous students who were in- 

 cited by those volumes to take up entomological pursuits, a manual 

 of information for their guidance in collecting, preserving and ar- 

 ranging insects, which was then greatly wanted by British entomo- 

 logists. 



At the election, which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop 

 of Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Trea- 

 surer ; John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary; and Richard Taylor, 



