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doing to his eyesight. He also possessed a considerable knowledge on 

 the scientific aspect of orchids. He again formed a very fine collection 

 of British coleoptera, which he most generously presented to the writer, 

 and of late years he took up the study, and amassed valuable 

 collections, of the Cicindelidae and the Rutelidae of the world. He 

 leaves two MS. papers on these families, one on the Cicindelidae 

 unfinished, and the other, " A Kevision of the Pelidontinse," which is 

 now in the hands of Mr. G. J. Arrow, of the British Museum, and 

 at which he was working just before his death. He was elected 

 a fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1897, a 

 member of La Societe Entomologique de France, on February 26th, 

 1868, and into the Quekett Microscopical Club, on November 28th, 

 1881. He was also a fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Ernest Bates, his eldest son, we have 

 been able to obtain the following list of some of his papers : — 



Various notes on British Coleoptera in the Zoologist from 1849-1854. 



"A Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Leicestershire," 1854; this was never 

 published, but was read as a paper before the Leicester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society by Mr. H. E. Quilter. 



" Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Heteromera," Trann. Ent. Sac. 

 of Loud., pt. iii, September, 1868. 



" Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Heteromera," Trana. Ent. Sac. 

 of Loud., pt. iv, December, 1868. 



"Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Heteromera," Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 1870, pp. 268-275. 



" Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Heteromera," Tram. Ent. Soc. 

 of Lond., pt. iv, December, 1872. 



" Notes on Heteromera and Descriptions of New Genera and Species," Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. ix, pp. 97-99, 133-135, 149-152, 1872 ; 181-184, 201-204, 233-238, 

 1873. Vol. X, pp. 14-17, 45-52, 1873. 



■" Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Tenebrionidse from Australia, 

 New Caledonia, and Norfolk Island," Trans. Ent. Soc. of Land., pt. iii, August, 

 1873. 



"Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Heteromera, chiefly from New 

 Zealand and New Caledonia, together with a Revision of the Genus Hypaulax and 

 a description of an allied New Genus from Colombia," Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 Series 4, vols, xii and xiii, 1873 and 1874. 



" Notes on the AdelliinsE with descriptions of New Species," Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xvi, pp. 71-75, 131-133, 1879. 



" Characters of the New Genera and Species of Heteromera collected by Dr. 

 Stoliczka during the Forsyth Expedition to Kashgar in 1873-4," Cistula Entomolo- 

 gica, ii, February, 1879. 



" Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Tenebrionidse from the Island 

 of Madagascar," Trans. Ent. Soc. of Land., pt. iv, December, 1879. 



" On the Zygnemacese : A Chapter in the History of the Freshwater Algas," 

 The Midland Naturalist, vol. vii, 1884, p. 315. 



" On Sexuality in the Zygnemacese," Quekett Microscopical Club, vol. ii, 

 Series 2, No. 11, p. 104, 1885. 



"The Fresh-water Alga in the Flora of Leicestershire," issued by the 

 Leicestershire Lit. and Phil. Soc, 1886. 



" The Heteromera in the Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission," 

 1890. 



" The Coleoptera of Bradgate Park," Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc. 



Turning to other subjects, he was very fond of music, of which, 

 though not a performer, he had a thorough knowledge, and in his 

 younger days he possessed a very fine voice. He was very well read, 

 a good Latin scholar, and could read French easily. His favourite 

 works were those of Huxley, Spencer, and Darwin, and he possessed 

 as complete a knowledge of, and insight into, philosophical subjects 

 as any man living. We quote two passages out of an old pocket-book, 



