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however, he was happily dissuaded; and in 1841 he was appointed 

 one of the Assistants to the Zoological Department of the British 

 Museum, where his attention was chiefly directed to the Lepidopte- 

 rous Insects of the National Collection, which contains one of the 

 finest and most extensive series of specimens in that department of 

 Entomology that has ever been brought together. Since this period 

 he has communicated numerous papers to the 'Annals of Natural 

 History,' to the ' Entomologist,' the ' Zoologist,' and the ' Phytolo- 

 gist ' ; to the ' Transactions ' of the Entomological Society and the 

 * Proceedings ' of the Zoological. The second part of the twentieth 

 volume of the Linnean Transactions contains a memoir by him, " On 

 the genus Argynnis of the ' Encyclopedic Methodique,' especially in 

 regard to its subdivision by characters drawn from the neuration of 

 the wings," in which he lays the foundation of a more complete and 

 systematic classification of Butterflies on the principle indicated than 

 had before been attempted. Besides these scattered memoirs he 

 drew up a complete " List of the Diurnal Lepidoptera " in the 

 Collection of the British Museum, and commenced in 1848, in con- 

 junction with his friend Mr. Hewitson, the publication of a magnifi- 

 cent work entitled ' The Genera of the Diurnal Lepidoptera,' which 

 he continued nearly up to the period of his death, but which, it is 

 greatly to be regretted, he did not live to complete. In the summer 

 of last year he was attacked by an obscure disease, which proved (on 

 examination after death) to be a fungous tumour attacking and de- 

 stroying the vertebrae of the loins and pressing upon the spinal cord ; 

 and after suff^ering, for several months, the most excruciating pain, 

 as well as a complete paralysis of the lower extremities, he died 

 on the 14th of December last, in the fortieth year of his age. 

 He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1 843, and had long 

 been an active Member of the Entomological Society, of which, for 

 the last two years of his life, he was Secretary. His knowledge of 

 Systematic Entomology was extensive and profound ; his acquaint- 

 ance with the literature of the science very considerable ; and the 

 large share of general information which he possessed, together with 

 his readiness in communicating it to others, acquired him great and 

 deserved esteem. 



Mr. Newman has kindly supplied the following list of his contri- 

 butions to the ' Entomological Magazine,' the ' Entomologist,' the 

 ' Zoologist,' and the ' Phytologist,' many of which were anony- 

 mous, and could therefore have been indicated only by Mr. Newman 

 himself. 



In the ' Entomological Magazine ' : — 



