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that tliey have never read the main works thereon, whilst at the same 

 time pretending to do scientific work." Old views die hard, and in 

 talking the matter over afterwards we agi'eed that it was good so much 

 liad been accomplished in such a short time. 



He was on the Council of the Entomological Society of London inter- 

 mittently since 1849. For seven years lie was Treasurer and twice 

 Vice-President. Why sixch an able man was never President is most 

 inexplicable. Probably it was due to his natural modesty, but for all 

 that it remains one of those things that " very few Fellows can under- 

 stand." He has been Vice-President of the South London Entoino- 

 logical Society for many years in succession, and only last year (1S93) 

 at the age of 71, the Society honoured itself by electing him I'resident. 

 His solicitude for the welfare of this Society was almost on a level Avitli 

 that shown by Mr. Capper for the Lancashire, and Mr. Clark for the 

 City of London Societies, the three men standing out as public 

 benefactors in their anxiety to further the interests of Science and the 

 progressive welfare of all. 



With the writer, many will feel that they have lost a respected and 

 honoured friend. Manv of us, too. will feel that we have lost a teacher, 

 a man of extensive erudition and knowledge, a generous jiatron of our 

 studies to whom we might turn for lielp, for information, for symjjathy 

 and be certain that we should obtain either or all, so far as was in the 

 giver's juiwer. Through many a younger man, Avho has learned at his 

 feet, it may bo well said that he being dead yet speaketh, and the 

 imprint that lie has made will show the futility of belief in annihilation. 

 He has done his work ; his successors will say lie has done it humbly 

 but well. — .]. W. TuTT. 



gOCIETIES. 



At the meeting of The Entomological Society of London, on 

 Feb. 28th, 1894, Professor August Forel, M.D., of the University of 

 Ziirich, was elected an Honorar}' Fellow of the Society, to fill tlie 

 vacancy caused by the death of the late Professor H. A. Hagen, M.D. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion called attention to a supposed new Tjongicorn 

 beetle, described and figured by Herr A. F. Nonfried, of Kacknitz, 

 Jiohemia, under the name of CaUipogon friedUinderi, in the Berl. Ent. 

 Zeitsrhr., 1S92, p. 22. He said that the supposed characters of the 

 insect were tlue to the fact, that the head had been gummed on upside 

 down I The Rev. Theodore Wood exhibited Saturnia carpini, with semi- 

 transparent wings, a large proportion of the scales being a])parently 

 absent, l)red Avith several examples of the type-form at Baldock, Herts ; 

 also a pale variety of Sinerinfhm popidi, which was said to have been 

 bred, with several similar specimens, from larvjB marked with rows of 

 red spots on both sides. 



At the meeting of the South London Entomological and Natikal 

 HiSTOKY Society, on Feb. Btli, 1894, the following among dtlier 

 exhibits, Avere made: — Mr. Carpenter ; a form of Agrotis cursor ia from 

 Aberdeen, which was not distinguishal)le from a southern form of A. 

 tritici. Mr. AV. F. Warne ; about two dozen species of Lcpidoptera 

 taken near Rockhampton, Queenslaiul, in a single moi'iiing ; among them 



