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F. O. Waterhouae, C.M.Z.S. — We learn from an Australian paper of the death 

 of Mr. F. G. Waterhouse, of Adelaide, South Australia, at the age of 84. Mr. 

 Waterhouse was the youngest brother of the late Q-. K. Waterhouse of the British 

 Museum. He went to Australia in 1852 in the first steamship that reached the 

 colonies. At first he was engaged in surveying ; but he was an enthusiastic naturalist, 

 and devoted much time to collecting. He sent large collections, chiefly of Coleoptera, 

 to England, and many of his discoveries were described by Pascoe and others, some 

 by McLeay and Castelnau in Australia. He formed a considerable collection of 

 birds, fishes and insects, which he presented to the Adelaide Museum, which he was 

 mainly instrumental in founding, and of which he was the first Curator. It was 

 soon after his appointment as Curator that he went as naturalist in the famous John 

 McDougall Stuart expedition, which crossed Australia in 1861-3 ; but although he 

 did much valuable work, most of his specimens had to be left behind to enable the 

 explorers to return alive, he himself nearly losing his life. He retired from the 

 Museum in 1882. He leaves four sons and one daughter. 



Stephen Barton, F.E.S., died at Bristol on November 17th, aged 78 years. In 

 1852 he visited Australia, where he resided two or three years, and made extensive 

 collections of Coleoptera, including many species which, on his return to England, 

 were unknown to science. Some of these were described from his specimens by 

 Bates and other authors. Mr. Barton also collected at the Cape and other places 

 en route. An arrangement to join his friend, Henry Walter Bates, in his journey to 

 the Amazons having fallen through, Mr. Barton settled down to business in Bristol, 

 but he continued to take much interest in Entomology, and amassed an immense 

 collection of British and foreign insects, chiefly Coleoptera, which will probably be 

 sold by auction shortly in London. He became a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1865, but did not contribute to its " Transactions." For over 

 thirty years he was President of the Entomological section of the Bristol Naturalists' 

 Society, and long acted as Honorary Curator to the Entomological department of 

 the Bristol Museum, contributing many valuable additions to the collection. Though 

 better known to an older generation, he will be much missed by his many friends, 

 especially by those in the West of England, to whom his collections were well 

 known. — A. E. Hudd. 



James Hardy, LL.D., of Old Cambus, Cockburnspath, N.B., died in October 

 last, aged 84 years. Personally almost unknown " down soutli," Mr. Hardy was a 

 tower of strength in Berwickshire and the adjoining counties, a man of wide know- 

 ledge in all branches of Natural History and Folk-lore ; as Secretary for much of a 

 long life of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, he contributed to make that institution 

 one of the best known and most useful local Societies. At present we know but 

 little of iiis personal history. His notes and papers, dating from 1834, probably 

 number nearly 100, mostly in the publications of northern Societies, that of Ber- 

 wickshire in particular. Most of them were on insects, especially the economic 

 branch of the subject, and he established new genera and species in Coleoptera, 

 Hemiptera (Coccidce, &i:.), Thysatiura,&.c. To British Coleopterists he was, perhaps, 

 best known as the compiler (with T. J. Bold) of " A Catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Nortliuniberland and Durham " (one of the most important of local lists), in the 

 Transactions of the Tyneside Natvn-alists' Field Club, from 1846 to 1852 (also 



