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tributed by his old friends to the Transactions, Sir Joseph. D. 

 Hooker tells of the time when he first saw him, at Mr. Darwin's, 

 at Down, shortly after his return from the Amazons. " We there 

 spent several days together, and I can remember none more en- 

 joyable. There was such a fascination in his manner and char- 

 acter, and such a boyish, hearty enjoyment of his return to his 

 native country, and all that it contained, from Shakespeare to 

 Punch, and from Darwin to the merest bug-hunter (so long as 

 the work was honest). Darwin's appreciation of him was whole- 

 hearted and all-round, and Bates's first visit to Down was marked 

 with a white stone in his host's memory, as in mine, and often 

 recurred to by us." " Perhaps, to know him at his best," says 

 Mr. Edward Clodd, "and pierce the thick husk of his modesty, 

 was when, the evening employment of beetle-sticking over, and 

 the frugal supper eaten, the pipe was lit and talk started, some- 

 times on some topic of the day, but, more often, on some subject 

 suggested by his wide and varied reading." Says a writer in The 

 Academj'', whose initials indicate that he is also Mr. Clodd : " His 

 leisure hours, diversified by chat with one or two intimates and 

 by omnivorous reading, were mainly devoted to the classification 

 of certain families of the Coleoptera, his collection of which, al- 

 though partly in course of dispersal, is unique. . . . The results 

 of this labor of love and of years are entombed in technical mem- 

 oirs, and notably in the scarcely more accessible Biologia Cen- 

 trali Americana." Hooker was impressed with his "power of 

 mind," and with that, says this writer, " was conjoined the sim- 

 plicity and teachableness of a child." 



Mr. Bates received many honors, but he never spoke of them, 

 and no one knows how many or what they were. He was made a 

 Fellow of the Linnsean Society in 1871, and of the Royal Society 

 in 1881, and he was twice President of the Entomological Society. 



According to Dr. J. J. M. de Groot, of the University of Leyden, whose paper 

 is illustrated by specimens from his collection, the wedding garments of a Chinese 

 woman are symbolical of the happiness, official dignity, and long life which she 

 desires for the numerous children expected to bless the union. These hopes are 

 represented by the dragon, the bat, the stag, the tortoise, and the crane or stork. 

 The head-gear is very elaborate, and is attached by a silver hair-pin with a head 

 of precious stones. These gorgeous garments are frequently used as grave-cloth- 

 ing for the mother, by the piety of the sons, who believe that to place things of 

 good omen in the tombs of ancestors is to secure for themselves and their offspring 

 the blessings of which they are emblems. 



Asteroid No. 323, the first that was discovered by the aid of photography (by 

 M. Wolf, of Heidelberg, November 28, 1891), has been named Brucia, after Miss 

 0. W. Bruce, of this country, who has appropriated a considerable part of her 

 fortune to the aid of astronomical research. 



