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Naturalists' Society before its union with the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow. 



For many years after 1870 the increasing claims of business curtailed 

 Mr. Bishop's opportunities for collecting, but, although debarred from active 

 participation in the pursuit of Ooleoptera, his interest in the group still 

 remained keen, and he acquired at various times the British collections of the 

 late Samuel Stevens, Alfred Beaumont, and George Guyon, as well as the 

 foreign collection of Dr. Heath. 



In later years more leisure enabled him, along with Dr. Sharp, to re-visit 

 Eannoch, Nethy Bridge, and other famous northern collecting grounds. 

 During this period some of his more important captures, usually made in the 

 company of Dr. Sharp or his daughter, were Bledius annae Shp., B. fuscipes 

 Rye, B. terebrans Schiodte, B. denticoUis Fauv., Gabrius bishopi Shp., 

 Criocephalus rusticus Dej., Pachi/ta sexmacalata L., and Rabocerus bishopi Shp. 



Mr. Bishop became a member of the Glasgow Society in 1883, and 

 although he was not a frequent attender he always toolc an interest in the 

 affairs of that Society and on various occasions contributed to the meetings by 

 sending for exhibition examples of his notable captures of Ooleoptera. 



Although he was a most successful collector of beetles Mr. Bishop hardly 

 ever wrote on the subject; in fact, almost the only notes from his pen appear 

 to be those on the occurrence of Dehaster dichrous at Lewisham and Ocijpus 

 cyaneus at Grantown-on-Spey, both published in this Magazine, the first in 

 1868 and the second in 1907 ! In many respects it was a pity he did not 

 publish more, for he was a keen and accurate observer in the field and had a 

 large store of information regarding the habits of his favourite group, particu- 

 larly of the Northern species. A man of singular personal charm and 

 generosity, he was always pleased, in spite of the cares of a great business, to 

 share his knowledge with his fellow Coleopterists and to assist them in wliat- 

 ever way lay within his p^wer. By his death and that of his old friend 

 Dr. Sharp, who, by a pathetic coincidence, passed away only a day later, the 

 little group of Entomologists who did so much in the middle of last century 

 to direct attention to the richness of the Scottish coleopterous fauna has 

 almost vanished. 



Mr. Bishop's extensive collections of British and foreign Ooleoptera were 

 left to his grandson, Mr. T. G. Bishop, but the ultimate destination of the 

 collections has not yet been decided, — A. Fergusson. 



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