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business ; eight years later he was taken into partnership, visited 

 England, was married, and returned to Eio after only a few months 

 absence. With occasional trips elsewhere, he lived in Brazil till 

 1858, and his chief pleasure was in devoting his spare time to the 

 study of insects, frequently spending hours at night collecting 

 night-flying species by aid of a lantern. 



Eeturning to England whilst still a young man, he continued to 

 add to his collection, only ceasing when health and sight began to 

 fail. Amongst these accessions were Pai'ry's collection of Longi- 

 cornia, and large numbers collected by Wallace, Doherty, White- 

 head at Kinabalu, and the types described by Bates. These having 

 been examined and named by specialists, have a very high value, 

 though their owner did not publish observations on any part of 

 his possessions. On his return to England he had entered into 

 business with his brother-in-law, the son of our late Fellow, 

 Mr. John Miers, F.E.S., as Frv, Miers & Co., remaining a partner 

 till 1898. He died at Norwood, on 26th February, 1905, aged 83, 

 bequeathing his collections, the largest and finest of their kind in 

 the United Kingdom, to the nation ; the number is estimated at 

 200,000 specimens, especially rich in beetles. His Fellowship dated 

 from 4th February, 1855. [B. D. J.] 



JoHis^ HoE]!fE, who died at St. Clements, Jersey, on 16th April, 

 1905, will be known to many as the author of ' A Tear in Fiji ; 

 or an enquiry into the botanical, agricultural, and economical 

 resources of the Colony,' London, 1881. He was attached in 

 1861 to the Department of Works and Forests, Mauritius, of 

 which he became the head, and Director of the Botanic Gardens 

 in that island. In 1877 he accepted an invitation from Sir Arthur 

 Gordon, then governor of Fiji, to visit those islands, and spent 

 a year's leave in exploring them, and making a collection of plants, 

 which were determined at Kew. The volume named above con- 

 tains, in Appendixes, the author's recommendations as to india- 

 rubber, sandalwood, and general forest matters, with a list of 

 the species known to occur on the islands, many new species with 

 mere names, which were in part afterwards taken up by later 

 writers. The total number of specimens sent by Mr. Home to the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, between 1865 and 1883 amounted 

 to nearly 3000. On retiring from the Colonial Service he settled 

 in Jersey, where he died; his connection with the Linuean 

 Society dated from 4th December, 1873. 



Thomas George Bond Howes, born in London on the 7th of 

 September, 1853, was the eldest son of Thomas Johnson Howes, 

 and a grandson of Captain George Augustus Bond, of the Hon. 

 East India Company's Service. After education at a private 

 school he found, at the age of twenty-one, a fair opening for the 

 scientific career which he was destined to follow during nearly 

 thirty years with ever increasing honour, satisfaction, and success. 



