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Coleoptera which had engaged his attention in earlier years, and 

 effected the transfer of his valuable collection of Beetles to the 

 Tring Museum, Free thus to add to the utmost to his series of 

 Palaearctic and East Asian Lepidoptera, he continued collecting, 

 and at the same time purchased, at considerable outlay, several well- 

 known continental cabinets, particularly those of Emmick, Dolman, 

 Sand, Miitzell, and others. In his travels through the N. -Western 

 Himalayas, Leech was accomjjanied by M. Lionel de Kiceville, and 

 many of the new and interesting species collected have since been 

 incorporated in Sir G. Hampson's ' Moths of British India.' 



Leech's papers are numerous, and date from 1879 to 1900. They 

 are mostly to be found in the ' Entomologist,' the ' Proceedings ' of 

 the Zoological Society, the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' and the ' Transactions ' of the Entomological Society of 

 London. He has himself described over a thousand new species 

 of Lepidoptera, to say nothing of other groups of Insecta ; and so 

 eager was he to secure publication that he in 1889 purchased the 

 ' Entomologist,' an arrangement, however, which he relinquished 

 three years later. Young and handsome, kindly and sympathetic, 

 zealously enthusiastic in the cause of Entomology, he, out of the 

 richness of his resources and collections, befriended many who were 

 in need ; and his death, which creates a gap in the entomological 

 world which it will be difficult indeed to till, was due to the effects 

 of a combined asthma and bronchitis of some two years' standing, 

 which suddenly became acute. 



He was a'Fellow of the Zoological and Geographical Societies, and 

 of the Entomological Society of London ; while on the Continent 

 he was honoured by the election to a Membership of the Societe 

 Entomologique de France, of the Entomologischeu Verein zu Berlin, 

 and the Gesellschaft Isis zu Dresden. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 5th June, 1884. 



In Cheistian^ Fkederik LtriKEX, who passed away at Copenhagen 

 on February 6, 1901, at the age of 64, the world has lost a worker 

 distinguished in most departments of zoological science, who was 

 in himself a link with the past, by his intimate association with the 

 great Steenstrup, whose pupil he had been, and whom he in turn 

 succeeded. He was born at Soro in Zealand, his father being tlicre 

 a professor of philosophy in the Academy, and a colleague of 

 Steenstrup. Early developing a taste for natural history, he pro- 

 secuted his zoological studies with much earnestness, interrupted 

 only for a brief period devoted to military service, during the war 

 between Germany and Denmark. His connection with the Copen- 

 hagen Museum began in 1852, and terminated only in compulsory 

 retirement from illness in 1899, two years before his death. The 

 development of the Collections, already famous when he took them 

 in hand, has been under his care one continuous success, the Museum 

 being rich in types and specimens of first-class importance, of which 

 no persons have made better use than English experts. His 

 published memoirs are in themselves a running record of his 



