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he wrote on December 31st. In addition to the Ilj'menoptera, he gave iine 

 series of other Oriental insects and a small cabinet containing his British 

 Aciileates, includirg the first male and female of Formica exsecla taken in 

 Britain, and the example, for many years unique as a British insect, of Odynerus 

 herrirhii { = basaUs) taken in Dorset in 18G8. 



I well remember the extraordinary care and interest he took in the trans- 

 port by road of these collections to Oxford, personally superintending the 

 packing in the van and arranging that it should arrive so that I could superin- 

 tend the un])acking and at once send him a telegram when all was safe. I 

 recall, too, the cluiracteristic generosity with which he sent a present to the 

 carter when the telegrjim came — generosity combined with wise foresight, for 

 the man had been told what he might expect if he iised all care and discretion. 

 And he never lost sight of or forgot his collection, but would seize every chance 

 of adding to it by the purchase of further series of Ilymeneptera, especially 

 pleased when they were Oriental species from new districts, or insects of all 

 kinds from ex-enemy countries. These generous gifts were continued in the 

 List years of his life and referred to in letters dictated a few weeks before his 

 death. lie bequeathed £150 to the Entomological Society, and £50 to the 

 Hope Department to provide further accommodation for his favourite Oriental 

 Ilymenoptera. 



He kept all his keen interest in natural history up to the end. A 

 fortnight before his death he listened to a long scientific paper read to him by 

 his daughter and only finished when it was nearly midnight, and dictated a 

 letter telling of his interest in it, and his pleasure at his daughter's interest. 

 And a few days earlier he had supplied further details concerning the capture 

 of rare British insects, and made an important correction in the data previously 

 given. " I don't know how it is," he wrote, " but as one gets older and 

 towards the end of the lane one turns to one's first love— British Bittterjlies.^' 



It was the same with his other great interest — Rugby football. After 

 hearing tlie summar}' of current events in the newspaper he would always say 

 " Now turn to the football news." Ilothney was one of those wise English- 

 men who know well that the worst thing to do in the Tropics is to live a 

 sedentary life chiefly occupied in cursing the weather. He was the first to 

 start distance running in India ; he introduced Bugby Eootball into Calcutta 

 in the year of his arrival, and, when Captain and Secretary of the Club in 1878, 

 it was at his suggestion that the Calcutta Cup was presented to the Bugby 

 Union, to be competed for annually by England and Scotland. 



With his brain clear and active as ever he died as he would have wished, 

 very quietly, with his two daughters by his side. — E. B. P. 



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Julius Jaeyer, — In liis eighty-ninth year, the veteran Lepidopterist, 

 .7. Jaeger, jjassed away on January 5th last, at his home in North Kensington 

 Born in 1834 at Biedenkopf in Germany, he came to this country as a Professor 

 of Music about 1854, and remained in that profession until his retirement a 

 good many years ago, having at the time of his death lived in England for 

 ti8 3'ears. From boyhood he was an ardent entomologist, and the long summer 

 holidays which his profession allowed were largely spent in collecting Lepi- 

 doptera in Wales, and in various parts of England. Starcross was a favourite 



