[June, 



On Good Friday, March 23rd, he was attacked with a sudden pain 

 of the heart. Doctors were hastily sent for, and the first who reached 

 him (Dr. Sauerhering) found his pulse very faint, but otherwise no 

 symptom of importance ; by the time Dr. Schleich reached him the 

 pulse was again normal, and he saw no cause for serious anxiety. 

 The three following days passed without any recurrence of the attack, 

 and on Tuesday, March 27th, he rose at his usual early hour, declaring 

 that he felt quite well, and proceeded to correct a sheet of the " Stettiner 

 entomologische Zeitung," which contained a paper by Heinrich Frey 

 of Zurich. Soon afterwards, his wife brought him some cold meat and 

 bread and butter, on which he set to work with appetite, and Mrs. Zeller 

 retired to an adjoining room ; soon after hearing her husband twice 

 groan or cry out, she hurried back — he lay dead on the floor. 



Zeller was married in 1833 to the lady who survives him ; a son 

 died very young, a daughter, who married in 1864 Dr. Janicke of 

 "Wrietzen (but was too soon left a widow), has two children — the boy, 

 like his grandfather, shows a greater predilection for Entomology than 

 for his severer studies, but this tendency to atavism on the part of 

 the rising generation was not viewed with indulgence by the aged 

 Professor, who seemed to have overlooked that his own early life was 

 repeated by his grandson. 



It has been well said of Professor Zeller " that he always struck 

 one as a very thorough man in what he did — one who had trained his 

 mind well, and who thought and wrote with fullness and precision." 



As might almost have been expected from the date of his birth, 

 and the period of his greatest intellectual growth. Professor Zeller 

 never made any approach to an approval of Darwinism. 



His collections are in good hands, having been purchased by 

 Lord AValsingham. 



Mouiitsfield, Lewisham : 

 Maj/, 1883. 



Lebia turcica in the Hastings district. — On April 30th, while working at some 

 birch stumps in a clearing near Guestling, I took a beetle which I did not recognise. 

 When it was set, I at once identified it as Lebia turcica, F. In Cox's Handbook 

 this species is merely described as " rare," but I have been informed that it has latelj 

 been placed amongst the "reputed" British species, a fact which renders its oc- 

 currence in this district doubly interesting. I have again visited the same locality, 

 but 80 far without success. — "W. II. Bennett, 11, George Street, Hastings, May, 1883. 



