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contain the pupae of a rare " clear wing " and getting them sent on by rail to his 

 own premises, a proceeding said to have had a disapppointing finale. He was 

 accustomed to relate how, on one occasion, being out after rabbits and without a 

 net, he shot a Colias Edusa, a prize up north. He amassed a magnificent collection, 

 wonderfully rich in varieties and aberrations, and this he sold in 1888 to Mr. Sydney 

 Webb, his eyesight having failed : it was estimated to contain approximately 28,000 

 specimens. But he immediately started afresh and had formed another collection of 

 about 5,500 specimens after he had turned 72, and we are told that his sight 

 practically recovered. He was a keen naturalist in a wider sense than a collector of 

 British Lepidoptera. At one time he published a list of the Coleoptera of his district. 

 Attached to his house for over 35 years was a tame African eagle, which acted as a 

 watch-dog. In later years he lost much of his former testiness, and was a pretty 

 constant attendant at the meetings of the band of entomologists at Liverpool 

 presided over by Mr. Capper. He was thrice married and had a large family. It 

 may truly be said that he had in him all the requirements for a scientific 

 entomologist, but perverted by educational deficiencies in the first instance, 

 combined with an excess of egotism, this latter largely being a corollary from the 

 former. 



BiEMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : January \^th, 1899. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited two drawers from the type collection which had 

 been filled, one with Tortrices principally from Dr. P. B. Mason's collection, the 

 other with Pyrales from his own collection and that of Mr. F. W. Moore. Mr. P. 

 W. Abbott, a bred series of Camptogramma fluviata from Devonshire, also HeJiothis 

 armigera and Leucania viteUina from tlie same place. Mr. Bethune-Baker, a box 

 full of LyccEtiids, including forms of Icarus, Bellargus, and Corydon from many 

 localities in Europe and Turkestan. 



February 6th, 1899. — Annual Meeting. — The President in the Chair. 



The Annual Reports of the Council, Librarian, and Treasurer, were presented ; 

 that of the Treasurer showing a smaller balance in hand than last year. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.E.S., was re-elected President, and Mr. P. W. Abbott, 

 Vice-President for the ensuing year ; and the other officers as follows : — Treasurer, 

 Mr. R. C. Bradley; Secretary, Mr. C. J. Wainwright, 2, Handsworth Wood, Hands- 

 worth ; Librarian, Mr. A. H. Martineau ; and other Members of the Council, 

 Messrs. G. H. Kenrick, P.E.S., W. Harrison, H. Willoughby Ellis, and H. J. Sands. 

 — CoiBRAN J. Wainwright, Son. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 January 2&h, 1899.— Annual Meeting.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



