20 [June, 



Dbituarg. 



Dr. Herrich-Schdffer. — We announced •with great regret on the wrapper of our 

 last number the death of Dr. Gottlieb August Herrich-SchafEer, of Eatisbon, on the 

 14th April. 



Dr. Ilerrich-Schaffer was born in 1799, and till 1871 retained all the activity of 

 a younger man ; but in that year he had two paralytic strokes, from the effects of 

 which ho never thoroiighly rallied, and latterly, he had been afflicted with softening 

 of the brain, and his case had been for some time considered perfectly hopeless. 



Dr. ncrrich-Schiiffer was an hereditary entomologist ; his grandfather. Dr. J. C. 

 Schiiffer was a voluminous writer on insects from 1752 to 1779, and is perhaps best 

 known by his " Icones Insectorum circa Eatisbonam," a quarto work with one 

 hundred and eighty coloured plates. 



Dr. J. C. Schiiffer's son, the father of Hcrrich-Schiiffer, contributed fifty pages 

 on " Insecta " to a medical work on Eatisbon, and thus just obtained a place in 

 Hagen's Bibliography ; but the labours of the grandfather were quite eclipsed by 

 those of the grandson whose loss we now deplore. 



Herrich-Schilffcr, bom in 1799, obtained his Doctor's degree in 1821, and in the 

 same year appeared his first entomological publication, " De generatione insectorum 

 partibusquc ei inservientibus," and eight years later we find him occupied with a 

 continuation of Panzer's " Faima insectorum Germanise," which continued to 

 appear till 1841'. 



In 1836, he commenced a continuation of Hahn's " Wanzenartigen Insectcn," 

 which continued till 1853. His great work was, however, the " Systematische Bear- 

 beitung der Schmcttcrlinge von Europa," intended as a supplement and completion 

 of Hiibner's " Samralung curopaisehcr Schmettcrlinge." This work, commenced in 

 1843 and continued to 1856, is in six volumes quarto, with six hundred and seventy- 

 two plates, of which six hundred and thirty-six are coloured. It is a real monument 

 of labour and industry. From the year 1847 forwai-ds, he was a very frequent writer 

 in the " Correspondenzblatt des zoologisch mineralogisch Vercins in Ecgensburg." 

 In 18G1 he started a monthly periodical exclusively for entomology, " Correspondenz- 

 blatt fiir Sammlcr von Insccten insbcsondcre von Schmetterlingen," and of this he 

 wrote nearly the whole. In addition to all his literary productions, he was a keen 

 practical collector, and made frequent visits to the Swiss Alps, aud rarely failed to 

 attend the annual meetings of German Naturalists. 



In Eatisbon he was in busy practice as a Physician, and in 1871, on the occasion 

 of the celebration of the fiftieth Anniversary (Jubilee) of his obtaining his Doctor's 

 degree, he was presented with the freedom of his native city. 



Dr. Herrich-SchiilTcr visited England in 1851, attracted hither by the fame of 

 the Great Exhibition. 



Thomas John Bold. — It is with the most sincere regret that we chronicle tlic 

 loss of this well-known British entomologist, who died, after a short ailment, at his 

 residence, Long Benton, near Newcastlc-on-Tync, on the 5th ult., in the 58th year of 

 his age. He died ux harness (though labouring for more than seven years under 



