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public spirit and enerjjy durin<,' the war, his interest in tlie police and in 

 institutions for the insane, bis love of art and of his garden and the beautiful 

 open space around it. I shall always tliiuk with pleasure of the last time 

 1 walked Avith him in his garden, in the summer of 1920, and of his delight iu 

 recognizing a " Large Skipper " behind the rockery. 



His was, we may be sure, a very happy life, and many are happier because 

 of it.— E. B. P. 



It may be added that Dr. LongstafF's association with our Magazine com- 

 menced with the first volume, in which a brief note on LfpidoptTa taken near 

 Wandsworth appears on p. 76. Further articles by him are scattered through 

 our earlier volumes, including very interesting papers on the Lepidoptern of 

 Kannoch, in conjunction with the late J. B. Blackburn (vol. v, pp. 221-22-"J), 

 and of Forres (vol. vi, pp. 214-i5l6). In more recent years his contribuiions to 

 our pages include the narrative of his collecting experiences in Venezuela (vol. 

 xliv, pp. 69-76, 118-123) and in the Egyptian Sudan (vol. xlvii, pp. 119-127, 

 194-202), which are embodied in his line work "Butterfly Hunting in ISlanv 

 Lands" ; and a valuable paper, sujjplementary to the section dealing with that 

 interesting subject in the same book, " Further Notes on the Scents of Insects " 

 (vol. 1, pp. 1-8). 



Dr. Longstiiff was a Fellow of many learned associations, including the 

 Liiinean, Geological, and Entomological Societies; of the last-mentioiuMl, 

 which he joined in 1904, he was Vice-President iu three separate years, l',)09, 

 1915, and 1917.— Eds. 



Robert Charles Wroughton, as stated in the June number of this Magazine 

 (p. 143), died on May loth. He was a son of Major-General R. C. Wroughton, 

 and was born at Musserabad, India, on Aug. 15th, 1849. Educated at Bedford 

 School and King's College, London, and trained at L'Ecole Forestiere, Nancy, 

 France, he was appointed to the Indian Forest service on Dec. 10th, 1871, as 

 Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Bombay Presidency, and eventually 

 became Inspector-General of Forests for India, retiring in 1904. In 1877 he 

 married Mary, daughter of Capt. Freeman, of the Indian Navy. During his 

 long residence in India he paid a great deal of attention to the ants of that 

 country, forwarding specimens from time to time to A. Forel, who named and 

 described many of his captures, some of these insects subsequently pa.'^siug 

 into our National Collection. A paper by himself, entitled "Our (Indian) 

 Ants," appeared in the " Journal of the Bombay Natural History Societv," 

 1891-92. 



Since his retirement he has spent a great deal of time at the Natural 

 History Museum, working at the smaller Mammalia. Not long back he 

 went for a change to Estcourt, Natal. 



Albert Fauvel. — In the " Bulletin de la Society entomologique de France," 

 1921, No. 5, March 9th, p. 57, there is a brief announcement of the death of 

 this veteran entomologist. He joined that Society in 1861, and was elected 

 an Honorary Member in 1905. He wrote chiefly on Stapktjliuidac, and his last 

 paper on these insects appeared in 1909. 



