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London Worhing Entomologists Club. The Members held their usuai 

 Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, August 5th. There was an excellent show 

 of Insects captured this season, amongst them were the Purple Emperor, 

 White Admiral, High Brown, Dark Green and Silver-washed Fritillaries; 

 six of the Skippers, Sieve Lackeys, Large Lackey, Flat Lackey, Orange 

 Lackey, Dew Lackey, etc., with a host of fine larvas, including the Death's 

 Head, Oak Prominent, and Lobster. — James Gardner, Hon. Sec. 



DEATH OF MR. YARRELL. 



BY 0. S, ROUND, ESQ. 



Whilst the sheets of our last number were issuing from the press, the 

 most able and distinguished of modern Naturalists breathed his last — 

 William Yarrell, — a name associated with some of the most remarkable 

 discoveries in modern Physiology, etc., known and respected even by those 

 who were not professors of his beloved science. Mr. William Yarrell was 

 born in 1782, in the immediate neighbourhood of the house at the corner 

 of Ryder Street, St. James', where he passed almost the whole of his life; 

 and where with his father, and afterwards in partnership with another 

 gentleman, he carried on business as a newspaper agent, and which business 

 he only disposed of a few years since. A lover of the country and rural 

 sports, nature was his study and delight from an early period, and he 

 made ;^a valuable collection of specimens of Natural History; but it was 

 not until the year 1829 that he became an author, and in 1840 was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a connection terminating only 

 with his life, and which appears to have commanded a very large share of 

 his energies and talents, for almost his latest public act appears to have 

 been the part he took in the Linnean excursion to Guildford, not many 

 months since. 



Mr. Yarrell was a bachelor, but by no means justified the charge of 

 selfishness or moroseness, so commonly ascribed to that condition, being a 

 great appreciator of the amenities of life, singing an excellent song, and 

 distinguished for his social as well as literary qualities. In him the power 

 of talent was remarkably exemplified, for, although he might be considered, 

 strictly speaking, in trade, yet he mingled in the highest circles, formed 

 one at the dinner entertainments of our first statesmen, as well as in the 

 more scientific meetings of our literati. With the Zoological Society he 

 was connected from its very comraenceiBcnt, and became eventually vice- 



