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The LKriPorTERiSTs' Caibndau, giving tlio time wlicn tlie British Lepidoplera 

 appear in tlio egg, larval, and imago states ; with the food-plant and habitat. 13y 

 JosKPiT Mkuuix. Second Edition, enlarged and corrected to the present time ; 

 tiniall 8vo, pp. 250. Q-loucestcr: Herbert Marsden, 1875. 



We tliink that this little work will bo found very useful by beginners in the 

 t'tiuly of British Lepidoptera. Its compilation must have cost much time and 

 trouble, and on the whole is satisfactorily done, and it is neatly printed and got up. 

 It brings before the young collector, at a glance, those species which ho may expect 

 to meet with, in their various stages, in any particular month, and will act as a good 

 incentive. Of course, allowance must always bo made for difference of latitude and 

 altitude, and also for the forwardness or backwardness of the seasons in different 

 years. At tlie end, is a list of plants referred to, with their English names, and a 

 systematic list of our Lepidoptera, with indications of the mouths in which they 

 appear as larva) or imaj;03. 



North Staffoeushiee Naturalists' Field Club ; Annual Addresses, papers, 

 &e. ; Svo, pp. 266. Hanley, 1875. 



It does infinite credit to the Naturalists of Nortli Staffordshire that, after an 

 existence of only ten years, their Field Club can produce such a handsome volume 

 as that before us, with papers of real interest, several of them by authoi's well known 

 beyond the limits of their county. The majority of the papers are geological, with 

 an admixture of archaY)logy, which, rightly or wrongly, always seems to be insepar- 

 able from the Natural History work of Field Clubs. Entomology is not so well 

 represented as it should be, and is limited to a list of the Macro- Lepidojitera of the 

 district, compiled by T. W. Daltry, M.A., F.L.S. The term " Macro-Lepidoptera " 

 is made to include the Crambites, and we find tliat, up to this point, 379 of the 1)83 

 Britisii species have been taken in N. Staffordshire, including some very local insects. 



Obituarn. 



Henry Donhleday. In the first decade (1809 and ISIO) of the present century 

 were born, at Epping in Essex, two brotliers— Henry and Edward Doubleday — who 

 were destined, after somewhat different manners, to have their Jiames indissolubly 

 corniected with the science of Entomology in this country. The brilliant cai'eer of 

 llie younger (Edward) was prematurely cut short in 1819. The elder (llenry) passed 

 from among us on the 29th of June last, after a short period of great suffering, and 

 was I)uried at his native phioc on the 4tli Jidy. For many years Mr. Doubleday 

 liad been more or less a valetudinarian, and it was hoped by his friends that what 

 proved to be his fatal illness might be only a more than usually severe, but not 

 serious, attack, — a liope in wliich they were un]iai)pily mistaken. 



We have said that the entomological reputation of the brothers Doubleday was 

 acquired in different manners. Edward, when scarcely more than 21 years old, 

 shewed that the bout of his mind tended more towards the philosophical bnmch of 

 the subject, and he early expanded his ideas by lengthened foreign travel, llenry 

 remained at Epping, and at that time there was perhaps scarcely any spot in tlieso 

 islands more favourable for the development of a naturalist of the Gilbert White class, 

 which he proved himself to be ; — a careful, conscientious observer rather than a scieu- 



