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"Zoologist" (1885-1902). About 1876 the "Catalogue of the Doubleday 

 Collection" at Bethnal Green was "collated with the collections by 

 A. B. Faru." " The Insect Hunter's Companion," by the Rev. Joseph Greene, 

 was in 1880 " revised and extended by A. B. Farn." — Francis Jknkinson. 



Dr. Georg von Seidlitz died on July 15th, 1917, at Irschenhausen 

 (Oberbayern). He was born on June 19th, 1840, in Tschornaja Rjetschka, 

 not far from Petrograd. The "Entomologische Blatter," xiii, 1917, pp. 239- 

 248 (a copy of which has only just been seen by us), contains a long- obituary 

 notice of his life and work, including an excellent portrait, written by the late^ 

 H. Bickhardt. As a Coleopterist, he was well known to all studfents of 

 Palaearctic beetles. The bibliograph^y given shows that his first paper, on 

 Peritelus, is dated 1865, and his last, issued a fortnight before his death, 

 entitled " Die letzteu Familieu d^r Heteromeren " (Deutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1917, 

 pp. 65-116), formed the coucludiug- portion of the Heteromera of the " Insecten 

 Deutschlands." Other imptu'tant works by him were the "Fauna Baltica" 

 (1872) and the " P^xuna Transsylvanica " (1888). 



Francis George Whittle, who died on October 26th with tragic suddenness 

 at Southend-on-Sea, where he had resided for many years, was one of the 

 oldest subscribers to our Magazine, to which, however, lie made few if iuiy 

 contributions. In entomological circles he was well known as a jnost energetic 

 and accomplished worker in the Micro-Lepidoptera, and most of our collections 

 are indebted to him for the interesting little Psychid Epichnoi>tery.v ( Wkittlein) 

 reticella , the life-history of which was practical!}' discovered by him. Probably 

 no one was so intimately acquainted as he was with the exceedingly interesting 

 Lepidopterous fauna of the salt-marshes bordering both sides of the Thames 

 estuarj'. We understand that his extensive collections are bequeathed to the 

 Natural History Museum. 



Frederick William Lamburt S'laden, F.E.S., the well-known writer on 

 Hymenoptera and author of "The Humble Bee," was, we regret to learn, 

 drowned in Canada on September 10th last. We have, however, no I'urther 

 particulars of the accident. 



We deeply regret to announce the decease of Thomas Algernon. Chapman, 

 M.D., F.R.8., at liis residence, Betula, Reigate, on December 17th. A full 

 notice of his life and work will appear in the next forthcoming number of this 

 Magazine. 



Entomological Society op London: Wednesday, Noveinher 2nd, 1921. 

 — The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, M.A., F.R.S., etc.. President, in the 

 Chair. 



The ])resentatiou by the President of a rare copy uf Scopoli's " Deliciae 

 Florae et Faunicae" was announced, and a vote of thanks to him was carried 

 with acclamation. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Messrs. Norman 

 N. Miller, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa; Oliver Richardson Goodman, 210 



