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and suggestive book of Natural History travel that has ever been written. It 

 was from Teruate, one of these islands, that he sent to Charles Darwin in 1858 

 the famous essay which led to the immediate publication of the " Origin of 

 Species." On June 1st, 1863, soon after his return home, he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society by acclamation and without a formal 

 liallot " as a slight recognition of the vast services rendered to Science by this 

 distinguished Entomologist, Zoologist, and traveller." In 1871 and 1872 he 

 occupied the Presidential chair of the Society, and his address at the close of his 

 first year of office is a valuable contribution to the literature of Geographical 

 Distribution ; while in his great work, pixlilished in 1878, on this department of 

 biological science— which may be regarded as his magnum opus — the distribu- 

 tion of certain gi*oups of Insects throughout the world forms a leading feature. 

 In the years immediately following his retixrn from the East, a number of 

 important papers from Mr. Wallace's pen on systematic and general Entomology, 

 some of which have been reproduced in " Tropical Nature and other Essays," 

 appeared in various scientific periodicals. It is not necessary here to do more 

 than allude to his activities in other spheres of knowledge, and to the bestowal 

 on him of almost every honoiir in the gift of Science, culminating in the Order 

 of Merit conferred on him in 1908 by the late King Edward. Up to the very 

 last his astonishing mental and physical powers were maintained, and it is 

 only a few weeks ago that an important work, dealing with the social questions 

 in which he took so deep an interest, was issued from the Press. — J. J. W. 



Herbert Dcitce. - This well-known collector and describer of Exotic Lepido- 

 ptera died on April 11th last. He was born in London on July 14th, 1846, and 

 was thus in his 67th year. From an early age he became interested in entom- 

 ology, and soon took up the study of exotic Lepidoptera, confining himself for 

 many years to the Rhopalocera, the Heterocera not attracting him till later. 

 The " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London," and the " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History " over a long series of years, contain descriptions 

 of a vast ntimber of species from his pen ; but Druce's principal work was 

 Vols. I-III of the Heterocera of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana," commenced 

 in 1893 and finished in 1900. He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1867, of the Zoological in 1870, of the Linnean in 1872, 

 serving as Vice-President of the Linnean in 1902-3, and of the Zoological in 

 1904-6, and served on the Council of the Entomological in 1885 and 1892. His 

 last paper, perhaps, was a short one contribiited to the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine" in 1912. The first collection of Rhopalocera made by him was 

 acquired by the editors of the " Biologia" about 1880, and is now in the British 

 Museum. His second and much more extensive collection less the Lycxnidse 

 and Hesperiidse (which belonged to his son), has, since his death, passed into 

 the hands of Capt. Joicey, of Godalming. It is not often, perhaps, that the love 

 of entomology is inherited by the succeeding generation, but, fortunately this is 

 the case with Druce, his son Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., being, if anything, 

 a more devoted student of the subject than his father. 



