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Colonel Goureau. — On the 6tli February last, this Teteran French Entomologist 

 died at his countrj seat at Santiguj, in the department of Yonne. 



Eight years ago he wrote in one of his letters, that having arrived at extreme 

 old age, he had given up his residence at Paris, and I fancy he must have attained 

 the age of 90 or thereabouts. 



Colonel Goui-eau was a simple-minded, true lover of Nature. He amassed every 

 year a number of observations on the habits and transformations of insects ; many 

 of these he published in the " Annales " of the French Entomological Society, others 

 have found a place in his treatises on " Insectes Nuisibles," published in 1861, 1863, 

 1865, 1867, and 1869, which I believe all originally appeared in the " Bulletin de la 

 Societe des Sciences historiques et naturelles dc I'Yonne." His note books, written 

 with extreme neatness, are illustrated with numerous marginal sketches, and these 

 should yet furnish a vast fund of information to any Entomologist who is himself 

 sufficiently advanced to appreciate their value. It is not unlikely that a key may 

 there be found to many a joroblem which has long perjjlexed us. It is to be hoped 

 that these note books will not be lost sight of, but that some one of his confreres 

 will do what is needful to rescue them from oblivion. — H. T. S. 



Dr. Hermann Loeio, the well-known Dipterologist, died in Halle, April 21st, 

 after having been, three years ago, incapacitated for all scientific work by a paralytic 

 stroke. He was bom in Weissenfels, July 7th, 1807, studied in Halle, became, in 

 1850, Director of the " Kealschule," in Meseritz, after having been, for some time 

 previously, " Oberlehrer " in Posen. He was pensioned in 1868, and lived since 

 then in Gruben, Prussia, In 1848 he was elected member of the Francfort Parlia- 

 ment, and, after his retirement, he represented the province of Sorau-Guben in the 

 Prussian Landtag. 



Loew was undoubtedly the first authority in Dipterology, since Meigen. The 

 industry he displayed in that field, if considered in connection with his various 

 official callings, is truly marvellous. His principal collection was bought by the 

 Museum in Berlin ; the collection of North American Diptera has been acquired by 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. 



In the foregoing notice we have largely made use of that which appeared in the 

 " Entomologische Nachrichten," for June 1st, 1879. 



Entomological Society of London. — ^ith May, 1879. J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Prof. N. Joly, of Toulouse, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. Elwes exhibited a fine collection of Butterilies from Asia Minor, comprising 

 the greater number of those known to inhabit that district, and entered into an 

 analytical examination of its Butterfly fauna, from which the following deductions 

 were drawn. Of 196 species known from Asia Minor, 26 were peculiar to it, about 

 half of which had representatives in European forms ; 18 were peculiar to Asia 

 Minor and countries to the east and north-east of north of it, such as South Russia, 

 North Persia, &c. ; 10 were common to Asia Minor and south or south-eastern 



