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of Paykull is perhaps not impossible. Hear says of it (Faun. Col. Helv. 3fi) 

 " PrEBecdenti {N. gi/llenhali) minus affinis, elytrornm siriis paulo profundioribus, 

 interstitiis convcxioribus, femoribus riifis di^noscitui'." Finally, it must be admitted 

 that connecting links exist between all these forms and the type, and the case 

 perhaps does but furnish one more example of the futility of attempting to nomi- 

 nally differentiate between the varied forms of an inconstant species such as this. — 

 W. E. Sharp, South Norwood, Surrey : October, 1905. 



ituarn. 



Oeorge Boiodler Buclcton, F.R.S., died on September 25th, in his 88th year, 

 having been born in London on May 21th, 1817. He was privately educated, 

 having been incapacitated by an accident in early life from all active pursuits. 

 His friendship with Thomas Bell, F.R.S., first turned his attention to Natural 

 History, but his earliest serious studies were devoted to Chemistry and Physics, and 

 in 1867 he carried out some important original work, in recognition of which he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society. Tn 1865 he married the widow of 

 Professor Odling, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, and bought the estate of 

 Weycombe at Haslemere, and built the house which he occupied to the day of his 

 death. At Haslemere he soon began to get together material for his monograph in 

 four volumes of the " British Aphides," published by the Eay Society, 1876-'.883. 

 In 1890 his illustrated "Monograph of the British Cicadas or Tettigidse" was 

 published by Macmillan, and was followed in 1895 by " The Natural History of 

 JEristalis tenax" and by various papers. His last work was a " Monograph of the 

 Membracidse." Most of the plates in these works were drawn, and, in some cases, 

 lithographed, by himself. The original drawings of the Membraciche have been 

 presented to the Hope Museum at Oxford. 



Mr. Buckton was a Fellow of the Linnean Society (1845), the Chemical 

 Society (1852), the Royal Society (1867), and the Entomological Society (1883), and 

 was also a Member of the Fntomological Society of France, a Corresponding 

 Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia, &c. 



Apart from his scientific pursuits, he was a good musician and artist, and a 

 man whose mind never lay in one groove ; his great energy and. will-power were 

 shown by the fact that, although quite crippled from early years, he travelled alone 

 in Italy, France, and elsewhere, and managed to frequently attend the council and 

 general meetings of the various societies to which he belonged. It is not for us to 

 speak of what he was to his family at home, but by his kindly courtesy and self- 

 effacing hospitality he endeared himself to all with whom he was brought into 

 contact. 



Mr. Buckton will be much missed in Haslemere ; he was a strong supporter of 

 the Parish Church and Schools, and also took a great interest in all movements for 

 the good of the pai-ish generally, without regard to denomination. The funeral took 

 place in Haslemere Churchyard on Saturday, September 30th, the remains having 

 been previously cremated, and the large attendance showed in how great esteem the 

 deceased was held by his friends and fellow townsmen. — W. W. F. 



