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was authoiized, and it appeared in 1880. An opinion given by Captain 

 Hutton to Sir James Hector may be appropriately quoted here : " I regard 

 this as a most excellent work, containing 1,140 species, a large part of which 

 are described for the first time. No country outside Europe and the United 

 States has produced such a catalogue." Sir James Hector refers to it as 

 " a monument of the zeal and industry of an aident naturalist." 



The pubhcation of the Manual not only spurred the author to renewed 

 efforts, but brought to the front collectors in all parts of the Dominion. 

 Five supplementary parts were issued between 1881 and 1893. Seven 

 memoirs of considerable length appeared in volumes 41 to 45 of the 

 Transactions of the New Zealayid Institute, while six Bulletins have since 

 been separately printed. In these publications the authoi has incieased 

 the 1,140 species of the Manual to 3,979 ; and it is understood that much 

 additional manuscript remains in the hands of the Institute. There a^e 

 few countiies, if any, where a single individual has so fuUy and completely 

 described a branch of the fauna equivalent in numbers to that of the 

 Coleoptera of New Zealand. 



Major Broun devoted himself to his work with a conscientious single- 

 mindedness, and with inexhaustible energy ; and it was not until he had 

 long passed the ordinary span of life that he knew what it was to be tired 

 either in body or in mind. As for his chaiacter, he was mainly distinguished 

 by being thoroughly honest and outspoken ; and, from his naturally inde- 

 pendent spirit and bearing, he was sometimes misunderstood. He had a 

 warm and feeling heart, and to his friends he was a genial companion, full 

 of anecdotes, which he often related with much felicity of expression. 



T. F. Cheeseman. 



