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ployed in the illustration of numerous important works. The beautiful 

 plates which he contributed to our own ' Transactions,' and to those 

 of the Royal Society in connexion with the papers of his friend 

 Mr. Newport, must be familiar to most of our Members ; and not 

 less deserving of notice are those given in Mr. Stainton's ' Insecta 

 Britannica,' accompanying various papers in the ' Transactions of 

 the Entomological Society,' and illustrating the Crustacea of the 

 ' Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang.' One of the prin- 

 cipal ingredients of his success as an artist was undoubtedly the in- 

 terest which he took in the objects delineated by him, and which led 

 him to attach himself especially to the study of entomology. In 

 1847 he became a Member of the Entomological Society, and for 

 several years previous to his death filled the office of one of its 

 Secretaries. To its ' Transactions ' he contributed " Descriptions 

 of some Hermaphrodite British Lepidoptera, ^vith figures of the 

 Insects," printed in the fifth volume ; and he was also author of 

 " Characters of three new genera and species of Lepidoptera," in 

 the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for 1854. He was 

 elected into the Linnean Society irr 1852, with even,' promise of a 

 long and useful life ; but a latent tendency to consumption, called 

 into action bv one of those wasting diseases so frequently attendant 

 on that disposition, was soon afterwards developed, and he died on 

 the 9th of January in the present year, at the early age of 27. 



James Edward Winterboltom, Esq., was the son of the late Dr. 

 Winterbottom of Reading, and was bom on the 7th of April 1803. 

 After acquiring the rudiments of education at several private schools, 

 he was induced by his parents to abandon his own choice of the mi- 

 litary profession, and to enter the University of Oxford, with a view 

 to the study of medicine. He became a Commoner of St. John's 

 College, Oxford, in 1821, and took successively his degrees of B.A., 

 M.A., and B.M., which last was obtained in 1833. In the intervals 

 of L^niversity attendance he became a student of St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, the practice of which, as well as the Lectures connected 

 with it, he diligently attended for two years, commencing in 1827. 

 He never, however, practised the profession ; but from the period of 

 taking his degree, occupied his leisure with frequent tours, which 

 enabled him to gratify his tciste, not only for natural history, but 

 also for architecture, sculpture, painting and engraving. Thus, in 

 1834-35 he travelled through Northern Italy, extending his tour to 

 Rome and Naples, and returning by Switzerland and the Rhine. 

 The ten following years were spent in visiting different parts of the 

 United Kingdom, including two visits to Ireland and two or three 



