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haviny to be larpfely re-written from matorifil afTordod by his own painstaking- 

 observations and those of his friend Jolm Sang. 



In 1884 Gardner turned his attention to the Coleoptern, and so assiduously 

 did he investigate the coast-line and inland localities of his own neighbourhood 

 tliat he discovered a large number of rare and interesting beetles as additions 

 to those enumerated by Bold in his "Catalogue of Northumberland and 

 Durham Coleoptera," published in 1871-2. The beetle-fauna of the Hartlepool 

 and Upi)er Tees Valley districts was hardly Icnown, and he was able to record 

 additional localities for many of the rarer insects mentioned in Bold's List. 

 A full account of these will be found incorporated in Mr. R. S. Bagnall's 

 Notes on local Colt'optera, read before the Newcastle Natural History Society 

 and published in their Transactions. 



Mr. Gardner was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 

 in 1890, and was a member of the "Coleoptera Committee" in connection with 

 the Yorkshire Naturali-its' Union. Modest and unassuming to a degree, he did 

 not parade his store of knowledge, and wrote much less than he might have 

 dniie in the entomological literature of his day. But by his generosity our 

 collections have been enriched, whilst to the young student he was a most 

 helpful companion, and, as the writer of this notice can testify, delighted to 

 impart information on field-work and the methods of observation he had 

 himself acquired only after patient work and long experience. 



The collections of British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera formed by 

 Mr. Gardner were presented by him to the Newcastle-on-Tyne Museum> 

 where thej' remain a fitting memorial to his life-work. 



He was buried in Hart cemetery on July 23rd, and the funeral was 

 attended by a large circle of friends and colleagues, who held him iu high 

 esteem and atlection during a long life-time, and for whose widow much 

 sympathy was felt in her bereavement. — M. L. T. 



The South London ENroJiOLOGiCAL and Natural Hi stoby Society : 

 July Uth, 1921.— Mr. K. G. Blair, B.Sc, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. G. S. Baker, of W. Brompton, was elected a member. 



There was a short discussion on Xanthorho'e {Cidaria) rivata and X. (C) 

 alternata {sociata), introduced by Mr. Hy. J. Turner, who dealt at length with 

 the nomenclature and differentiation and briefly with the variation. Mr. A. 

 A. W. Buckstone exhibited series from several localities and referred to a later 

 and darker form of X. alternata {sociata). Mr. Mera, series of both species 

 and referred to the variation occurring in Britain, dealing especially with the 

 L of Lewis dark race of the latter species. Mr. Enefer read a note on his 

 exhibit of Hylohiiis abietis, a beetle recently becoming abundant in the S. 

 of England. Mr. H. JNIoore, an ant-lion he had bred from the larva given 

 him by Mr. Main, from S. France, and also an aberration of Anosia herenice 

 from Florida. Mr, Priske, the winged form of the water Ilemipteron 

 Velia currens. Mr. Blair, the fire-fly Fhengodts laticoUis from Washington, 

 and read notes on its life-history. Mr. Turner, further species of Lepidoptera 

 from California sent to him by Mr. G. B. Pearson. 



