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and was ordained in 1865 to a cnrat-y at I lam. After succosslve curacies at 

 Needwood, Bearstead, Enfield, and Riisper, lie became vicar of Shipley, Sussex, 

 in 1873, aud held the living for eleven years. On retiring therefrom in 1S84 

 he went to live at Shirley Warren, neai" Southampton, and in 1905 moved to 

 Great Malvern, where he died on March 22nd, aged 81. At Shirley he was fur 

 some years a near nt.-igbbour of Dr. Sharp, who during that period must have 

 helped him in many ways in his entouiolugical work. In addition to his 

 Coleoptera he had small collections of most other insects, of birds' eggs, fossils, 

 minerals, and land-shells, lie was also in his time a keen stamp collector. 

 Coins, too, came within his ken, and be had a very tine lot of English silver and 

 bronze, being a member of the British Numismatic Society and a well-known 

 figure at Ijondou coin sales. 



Gorham's entomological writings, all dealing with British or exotic 

 Coleoptera, extend over a period of forty years, the first — '* Notes on Coleojitera 

 at Southend and its Neighbourhood"— being dated 18(37, aud the last—" On a 

 species of Simj^locaria apparently distinct from S. semistriatn Fab." — 1907, 

 both of which appeared in this Magazine. His most important contributions 

 to exotic entomology are " Endmnycici IJecitati" (1873), and the "MMlaci-- 

 dermata" (1880-86), and " I'^rotylidae, Endomychidae, aud Coccinellidae " 

 (1887-1889), for the Biologia Centrali-Americanii. Amongst his numerous 

 discoveries of British Coleoptera, Bemhidium qiiaclrlpastulatum, at Bearstead^ 

 Kent, and Oxytelus fulvipes, at Needwood, Staffordshire, are perhaps the most 

 noteworthy. 



The extensive exotic collections of beetles made by him, including that of 

 the well-known arti&t Armitage (which was bequeathed to Gorham by its 

 owner, who died on May 24th, 1896), have mostly passed into the hands of 

 Continental or American workers. The Endomychidae, which included the 

 Giierin and DeyroUe collections and contained many types, were acquired by 

 the British Museum in 1891 ; the Lycidae were purchased by Bourgeois and 

 the Lampyridae by Olivier, these collections, on the death of their respective 

 owners, passing into the Paris Museum ; the Telephoridae, Melyridiie, etc., 

 were sold to M. Pic, the Coccinellidae to M. Sicard, aud the Erotylidae, we 

 believe, to the Deiitschen Entoaiologischen Museum in Berlin. 



Gorham was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London as 

 long ago as 1855, a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1881, and a Member of 

 the Society Entomologique de France in 1887. He leaves two sons and three 

 daughters, his wife having died some years ago. — J. li. le B. T. 



Edmund Reitter died at Paskau, 3Ioravia, on March 15th, aged 75. 

 He was the author of innumerable papers on Palaearctic Coleoptera, and his 

 Catalogues of the European Species, the second edition of which was issued in 

 1906, have been of great assistance to all students, British and Continental. 

 The " Fauna Germauica," issued in five volumes, and including 168 colouri d 

 plates of beetles, 1908-1916, is one of his most useful publications, especially 

 for beginners : such a work, at a low price, being a great desideratum 

 in this country, if the British fauna could be dealt with in the same way. 

 Reitter was also the editor of " Wiener Entomologische Zeitung," from its 

 commeucemeut in 1891 to the date of his death. 



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