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and, in 1842, entered at Jesus College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. in 1845, and his 

 M.A. in due course, and becoming a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 

 He also became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847. He resided at Cambridge 

 for a time, until symptoms of delicacy in the lungs compelled him to pass the winter 

 in Madeira in 1847. On his return, he liyed for a few years in Thm-Ioe Square, 

 Brompton, and Hereford Street, Park Lane, until pulmonary weakness drove him to 

 King's Kerswell, near Torquay, whence he removed to Teignmouth, where he is now 

 buried. He passed many winters in Madeira, and, in 1866, visited the Cape de 

 Verdes, extending his favourite study of island forms still further during a stay of six 

 months in St. Helena at the end of 1875 and beginning of 1876. The success at- 

 tending his collecting in the latter island, indeed, incited him to so much physical 

 exertion, unfelt at the time in consequence of the salubrity of the climate, that he 

 broke down on the homeward voyage, which was exceptionally cold and rough. 

 Another stay at Madeira thus became necessary, but was apparently not sufficient to 

 enable him to resist any longer the attacks of the disease which, though it had for 

 thirty years kept him in a constant state of physical debility, had been unable to 

 prevent him from constant work. Of the cost of that work, the following extract 

 from a letter received just before his death will give an indication : — " Indeed, the 

 " constant warfare between physical incapacity and will was a curious feature, even 

 " at Madeira, where half my work was actually written in bed, and when suffering 

 " more or less from bleeding of the lungs ; or else while setting in a chair in the 

 " garden, basking in the sunshine." Mr. Wollaston in January, 1869, married the 

 youngest daughter of his friend Mr. Shepherd, of Teignmouth, but leaves no issue. 



A list of some of his works will be found in Hagen's invaluable " Bibliotheca 

 Entomologica," and in the Royal Society's List of Scientific Papers. The forty-two 

 publications therein enumerated, however, by no means represent the whole, even up 

 to the date of those works, as many of his minor writings have been omitted, in- 

 cluding his first contribution to entomological science, which was in vol. i (1843) of 

 the Zoologist, upon the Coleoptera of Launceston, written wliile a student at Cam- 

 bridge, where, with the late Rev. Hamlet Clark and Rev. J. F. Dawson, he acquired 

 his taste for Entomology. As regards British insects, in addition to various com- 

 munications of local interest in the Zoologist and this Magazine (wherein his last 

 paper on indigenous beetles appeared in July, 1872, and includes a description of a 

 new species of Brachelytra, ScopcBus Syei, erroneously referred by M. Fauvel to S. 

 sulcicollis, from which it differs toto coelo), he will be remembered by his discovery 

 of many species new to our fauna, especially of Pentarthritm Huttoni, representing 

 a new genus of his favourite family the CossotiidcB (1856), his revision of Atomaria 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1857), his enticing notes on collecting in the Entomologist's 

 Weekly IntelHgencer, and his excellent " Notes on Collecting " in the Entomologist's 

 Annual for 1855. His general descriptive papers, on Coleoptera from New Zealand, 

 Japan, Morocco, and other widely separated localities, will be found in the publica- 

 tions above mentioned, and in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, the 

 Journal of Entomology, and the BerUner entomologische Zeitschrift. So long ago 

 as 1856, his attention was directed to the importance of the subject of variation of 

 specieB, on which he published a work of 208 pages in length in that year ; and at 

 the time of his death ho had just completed a most arduous undertaking, the de- 

 scription of known Madeirau land shells, which, under the title of " Testacea 



