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viously visited bv him on more than one occasion, devoting his life entirely to 

 Entomology, finally taking a house with garden and vineyard attached — an ideal 

 home for a naturalist. Marshall had a thorough all-round knowledge of Entom- 

 ology, with especial leanings towards parasitic Hymenoptera. Yet his first impor- 

 tant work was "Corynodinorum Reeensio " (Journ. Linn. Soc, 1865), a monograph 

 of a family of Coleoptera, undertaken at the suggestion of the Rev. Hamlet Clark, 

 who had recognised his ability. This was followed by " Ichneumoniduni Britan- 

 nicorum Catalogus," published separately in 1870; "A Catalogue of British 

 Chryxididif, IvhneumonidcB, Braconidre and Evanildre (published by the Entomol. 

 Soc. Lond. in 1872), and Oxi/ura (i/nd., in 1873) ; Notes on the first part of this 

 general Catalogue (Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1872) ; Monograph of Bi'ili.sli Braconidre 

 {Uiid., 1885 — -1889) ; and the Braconidce in Andre's " Species des Hymenopteres d' 

 Europe," at which he was still working at the time of his death. In addition totliese 

 he published a very large number of shorter papers and notes, principally in the 

 pages of this magazine. All his works are models of lucidity, his handwriting was 

 type-like in its nature, and tlie marvellously careful illustrations were all from his 

 own drawings, any defects these )nay prove to have must be put down to his 

 inabilitv to abandon the now much-abused system of carding his materials. Few 

 entomologists have done more good work in their time than Marshall, and this might 

 have been still more extended had it not been for his restlessness. A natural 

 shyness and reserve, excepting in the company of intimate friends, was a pronounced 

 personal trait ; he seldom came to London, and the writer of this notice met him 

 only two or three times ; but he was an admirable correspondent, and his letters 

 were samples of purity of style. To his great friend and fellow-worker, Mr. Bignell 

 (now of Saltash), we are also indebted for items of information concerning him. 

 He joined the Entomological Society of London in 18fi5, anrl for some years was a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society. — R. McL. 



Dr. Frederik V. A. Meinert, the most prominent Danish Entomologist since 

 Schiodte, whom he succeeded as Inspector of Zoology at the Copenhagen Museum, 

 died on March 3rd, 1903, at the age of 70. He appears to have been originally a 

 student in Theology, but his tastes led him in the direction of Zoology, and in this 

 connection he travelled to Algeria and Tunis in 1868-(i9. He did much towards 

 elucidating the Insects, Myriopoda, &c., of Denmark, and more especially their 

 anatomy and physiology, and in these branches his name will always stand 

 prominently forward, for his labours therein were both valuable and productive. In 

 purely systematic work he did but little. When Wagner announced his discovery 

 (received with incredulity at the time) that certain Dipterous larvae have the 

 power to produce larvae or perfect insects (a form of parthenogenesis known now as 

 paedogenesis) Meinert set to work and proved its correctness, and his' investigations 

 of the subject are often more generally quoted than are those of the original dis- 

 coverer. We have heard singularly little of psedogenesis latterly. From 1887 to 

 1896 Meinert was the editor of the Danish journal " Entomologiske Meddelelser," 

 and in the No. for May, 1903, there is a short memoir of him (with detailed list 

 of his works), by Pr. Klocker, the present editor, which we have utilised in pre- 

 paring this brief notice, and also a portrait, which depicts a man of marked 

 personality. 



