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however, as a student of the Hymenoptera that he will be best 

 remembered, and especially of the Ichneumonidse, upon which he 

 did good work throughout the years 1878-1894, largely in con- 

 junction with Mr. fitch. The series of papers published through- 

 out this period in the ' Entomologist,' and in the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society and of the ]S"orfolk and jS'orwich Naturalists' 

 Society, are most valuable for reference and as local records. 

 In 1895, on the cessation of this work, Bridgman presented his 

 collection of insects and books to the JS^orwich Castle Museum, 

 a lasting heritage to the working entomologist. 



He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, and was elected 

 a Fallow of the Linnean on 1st March, 1883. 



"William Coyebdale Beattie Eatwell, M.D., E.E.C.P., was 

 born in April 1819, and died at Upper Norwood on August 8th, 

 1899. He was the son of Captain W. Eatwell, of the Indian 

 Navy. He was educated at G-lasgow, where he took his degree 

 in 1840, and he studied at University College in London, and at 

 Montpelier in France ; he also studied Chemistry in Grermauy 

 under the celebrated Liebig. On joining the Indian Army 

 Medical Service in 1841, he was ordered to China, where he was 

 detached for duty with H.M. British regiments, receiving a 

 special Commission as Assistant-Surgeon in H.M. Forces, in 

 addition to his Commission in the Indian Army ; he served 

 in China from 1842 to 1845. On his return to India, he was 

 posted to the Medical charge of the station of Pabna, which he 

 held for some years, till he was transferred as Assistant and 

 Chemical Examiner in the Opium Department. He served in 

 this capacity till in 1857 he was appointed Principal of the 

 Medical College, Calcutta, becoming at the same time a Member 

 of the Senate of the Calcutta University, Professor of Materia 

 Medicaand Clinical Medicine, and second physician at the Medical 

 College Hospital. He retired from the Service in 1861, residing 

 at fii'st in London, and later at 98 Marina, St. Leonards. He was 

 a man of varied attainments, a good musician and artist, besides 

 taking an interest in all political and religious subjects, especially 

 in regard to the Opium Question, as to which he was considered 

 an authority. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 3rd 

 February, 1859. 



Alphonse Milne-Edwaeds, Professor of Zoology and Director of 

 the Natural History Museum of Paris, was of English descent, 

 being the grandson of a West-Indian Planter, Avho settled in 

 Bruges, and son of the zoologically famous Henri M.-Edwards, 

 with whom he was for many years associated in his work. He 

 was born in Paris in 1835, and, taking his Medical degree, was 

 in 1865 made a Professor in the School of Pharmacy. His later 

 zoological career dates from 1876, when he acted as Deputy- 

 Professor for his father in the Jardiu des Plantes, but his 



