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villes Wootton were recorded by his fatlier in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iv, p. 114, and 

 vol. vii, p. 139 ; he also took Sirex jiivencus and Leptomorphus Walkeri at Glan- 

 villes Wootton, and inserted a notice of his capture of the former in the Entomologist, 

 vol. xxii, p. 17. Since his wife's death in 1892 Mr. Dale lived at Salisbury and 

 established a business as electrical engineer, which he hoped to bequeath to his son. 

 About a foi'tnight before his death he had to give up his workshop, and took a very 

 inferior and out of the way building, which, with his financial unsuccesses, com- 

 pletely upset his equilibrium. He was the palentee of a few inventions, among 

 which may be mentioned an electrical lamp which might be used for mothing 

 purposes. He has left his mother's collection of aliells and his own collection of 

 coins, fossils and nests to his son, and his father's collection of foreign butterflies to 

 his daughter. The ultimate destination of the latter collection is unknown, but it 

 may be mentioned that it contains some arctic insects taken by Capt. Ross, and 

 figured by Curtis in the Appendix of Ross's work. — C. W. Dale. 



William Duppa Crotch, M.A., F.L.S., died at his residence, Asgard, Richmond, 

 Surrey, on August 25th, aged 71. His name was familiar to the readers of the 

 "Intelligencer" as an enthusiastic student of Lepidoptera, vnr'wd hy Coleopi era 

 and Hemiptera. We think he studied for the medical profession, but, finding it 

 distasteful, did not qualify. He was perhaps best known as the brother (a year or 

 two junior) of Gr. R. Crotch, whose premature death in 1874 was a great loss to 

 Coleopterology ; of. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xi C1874-75), pp. 70-72. In their early 

 days the two brothers made several lengthy expeditions together. Later on he 

 married a Swedish wife, and settled in Scandinavia, apparently doing very little 

 entomologically, but occupying himself with an exhaustive study of the lemming 

 and its migrations, the results of which were publislicd. 



Prof. Augustuf! Radcliffe Qrofe, A.M. — We have information to the effect that 

 this well-known Lepidopterist died at Hildesheim on September 12th after a long 

 and painful illness. A more detailed notice will follow. 



Samuel James Willcinxon died at Lillesliall Road, Clapham, on September 

 16th, in his 88th year. Half a century ago he was known as a diligent collector 

 and observer of Lepidoptera. In the " Entomologist's Annual " for 1855 (ed. ii), 

 the late Mr. Stainton made an offer for the MS. of a work on the British 

 Tortrices. What replies wei'e received to that offer we know not, save that one by 

 Mr. Wilkinson was entertained, which came before the entomological public somewhat 

 as a surprise, as the proposed author had not previously shown any aptitude for 

 descriptive and systematic work. "The British Tortrices " appeared in 1859. It 

 was not very favourably received at the time ; to some the (acknowledged) want of 

 synonymy and bibliography was a great disappointment ; to others the work was in 

 advance of the times, for the employment of neuration, &c., in generic limitation in 

 Tortrices, was beyond the sphere of those British entomologists who could not con- 

 ceive that anything of importance lay concealed beneath the scales. The descrip- 

 tive matter was original, detailed, and accurate. The author showed he had in him 

 all the requirements necessary, excepting those of bibliographical research, and 

 keeping in touch with what had been done, and was being done, beyond our own 

 shores. Mr. Wilkinson had not been heard of by us for so many years that 

 information as to his decease a few days ago, at a venerable age, came quite 

 unexpectedly. — R. McL. 



