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logical Department of the Imperial & Royal Museum, in suc- 

 cession to F. M. Brauer, in 1906. His chief work is the 

 Kdfer Mitteleuropas, 1892-1904, in four volumes. He sug- 

 gested many improvements in the classification of the beetles, 

 and a critical synopsis of his views was recently given 

 by Mr. C. J. Gahan in the Entomologist ( London ), April- 

 December, 1911. He was one of the founders of the Wiener 

 Entomologische Zeitung, and was elected an Honorary Mem- 

 ber of the Entomological Society of London in 1896. 

 (Abridged in part from the notice, accompanied by a portrait, 

 in the Entom. Month. Mag., Sept., 1912.) 



THE REV. THOMAS BLACKBURN, who died at Adelaide, 

 South Australia, May 19, 1912, at the age of more than 70 

 years, was of English birth. His residence in the Hawaiian 

 Islands in 1876-1882 gave him opportunities for collecting in- 

 sects there and he published on the Coleoptera of that fauna. 

 A few years later he removed to Australia, where he like- 

 wise devoted himself to the beetles, publishing a number of 

 memoirs on them in Australian journals. His types have 

 been acquired for the British Museum of Natural History. 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., Sept., 1912.) 



GEORGE M'ASTERS, a native of Kent, England, who went to 

 Australia about 1860, collected and catalogued Australian 

 Coleoptera, and became, in 1874, curator of insects in the 

 Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, died in Sydney, 

 June 26, 1912, aged 75. (Ent. Mo. Mag., Sept. 1912.) 



We regret also to have to record the death of G. H. GROS- 

 VENOR, of Jesus College, Oxford, whose kindly services at 

 the recent International Congress of Entomology in that 

 city will be remembered by all who were present. He spent 

 some time in the United States in entomological study about 

 a year ago. He was drowned off the Cornish coast, on Sep- 

 tember 4, when trying to save the life of another. 



