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undermined his usual stamina, and, in addition, it was discovered that, 

 besides the kidney trouble for which he was being treated, he was also 

 suffering from cancer, and, although the operation was skilfully 

 performed, and up to a point was successful, the patient gradually 

 sank and died on the morning of May 27th. Born at Lightpill, in 

 1847, he removed with his parents to Cap Mill, and thence to King's 

 Mill, and always spoke of himself as a Painswickian. He was a 

 " pin " manufacturer by trade, and his father was one of the earliest 

 to supply entomologists with the special pins we now use for our 

 study. He was a thorough all-round naturalist — a good microscopist, 

 geologist, botanist, as well as a first-class entomologist — studying not 

 only lepidoptera, but most of the other orders. He was an especially 

 good hymenopterist, and had a first-class general acquaintance with 

 coleoptera and hemiptera. Like many other Gloucester boys, he was 

 largely influenced in his school days by his master, Moses Pullen, who 

 inculcated in the minds of many of his scholars a taste for natural 

 history. As an observer be was exact, thorough, and competent, and 

 one could perfectly rely on his statements and observations, backed up 

 as they were by reference to a careful diary, kept over a period of more 

 then 40 years. He was particularly interested in the fauna of 

 Gloucestershire, and took considerable pains in collecting details for 

 the faunistic list to be published in the Victoria County History series 

 for that county. We have often alluded regretfully to the fact that 

 he published so little out of his great fund of knowledge, but he 

 always retorted that what he knew was at the disposal of those who 

 wanted it, that, for the rest, ill-health and business left him little time 

 for real relaxation, and that, when able, he liked to be among the 

 plants, birds, and insects in the places he knew and loved so well. 

 He was after all a naturalist rather than a scientist in the modern 

 sense, preferring to know things rather than to know about them, and 

 as such, his contributions to the habits of our insects with which he 

 regularly supplied us for amalgamation in our own work, were always 

 useful, and will be most certainly missed. Our sincerest sympathies 

 are with the widow whom he has left to mourn his loss. 



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A Preliminary List of Coleoptera observed in the Neighbour- 

 hood of Oxford from 1819 to 1907, by Commander J. J. Walker, 

 E.N., M.A., etc. — This list of the coleoptera of Oxford by 

 Commander J. J. Walker, is very interesting to the student of our 

 fauna, comprising as it does the records of the late Kev. F. W. Hope, 

 as well as nearly all the available captures up-to-date. It is only 

 necessary to glance at it to see what a fine area for collecting it 

 embraces ; a radius of seven miles from the centre of Oxford beino- 

 taken as the limit. In a Synoptical Table at the end of the list the 

 total number of species for Oxford, some 1399, is compared with that 

 of Rochester, which totals 1615 species, but no doubt many more 

 species will be added to Oxford after further researches have been 

 made, and all the species captured have been incorporated. Much is 

 due to the enterprise of Messrs. W. Holland and A. H. Hamm, 

 as well as to the indefatigable compiler himself. We can add the 

 following species taken at different times on our various visits to 



