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country, almost every year has been marked by the visit of one or more of the 

 leading students and collectors of that Order to its classic localities. Their pub- 

 lished experiences, as well as those of resident Coleopttrists, have resulted in a 

 very large addition to our knowledge of Scottish beetles, as well as to the number 

 of species known to occur in that country ; and a glance at the voluminous 

 " Bibliography " at the end of these collected papers, comprising all available 

 records from 1871 to 1912, will at once indicate the amount of information at 

 the disposal of the compiler. He has made excellent use of this material in 

 the new " Supplement," which is practically on the lines of Dr. Sharp's list of 

 Scottish Coleoptera, now brought well up to date. Besides the incorporation 

 of a large number of species new to the country, many that were previously 

 included in the list on more or less slender or doubtful evidence have been 

 confirmed by these later records. A considerable proportion of these additions 

 have been hitherto regarded as markedly southern in their distribution, and it 

 is somewhat surprising to find such insects as Bidessv.s minutissimus and Haemonia 

 appendiculata established as Scottish species ; still more startling are the 

 records by Xilis in 187S from Shetland— rightly bracketed by the compiler as 

 "requiring additional confirmation" — of Anchomenus sezpv.nctatus, Bembidium 

 callosum, Dromius fenestratus, Onthophagvs taurv.s, Corymbites ? ipustulotus, and 

 SpondyUs buprestoides ! "We congratulate Mr. Fergusson on this useful and 

 well-executed piece of work, which is indispensable to every student of our 

 British beetle fauna. 



Obituaries. 



Dr. John Henry Wood, whose death took place at Ledbury on August 29th, 

 191-4. belonged to a family remarkable for energy and longevity, and devoted to 

 the medical and military professions. His father was a physician in Ledbury, 

 and reached the age of 91. Dr. "Wood was the eldest son (born April 14th, 

 18-41). The second (Miles A. Wood, F.E.C.S.) succeeded his father in practice 

 in Ledbury. The third brother is Major-General Sir Elliott Wood, who was all 

 through the Boer war as Chief Boyal Engineer with Lord Boberts. The 

 youngest brother, Colonel C. K. Wood, was Chief Boyal Engineer with General 

 Buller throughout the war, including the relief of Ladysmith. 



Dr. Wood became M.B.C.S. in 1862, taking the M.B. Lond. in 1864, and for 

 nearly half a century was in practice at Tarrington, Herefordshire. He was 

 never married. He was of untiring activity, whether after hounds, at tennis, 

 on a bicycle (in pre-motor days), or far afield on foot amongst the Black 

 Mountains or by the Monnow. He was a good botanist, and was accomplished 

 in other studies, so that he was an excellent comrade — not only from his genial 

 natiu-e, but by the stores of knowledge always at his command. Lithe and 

 wiry, without a particle of superfluous tissue, alert in expression and action, he 

 had as much the appearance of a highly-trained officer as of a physician. 



Dr. Wood was no doubt an enthusiastic and successful collector, but his 

 real interest in Entomolotjv was much more a scientific one. Life-histories and 



