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Edward Sheppard died on the 8th of September, after a short illness, at the 

 age of 67. In his public capacity as Collector of Customs in the port of London, 

 from which office he retired only two months ago, he was widely known and appre- 

 ciated for his knowledge of business and his uniform courtesy, while his genial 

 disposition and hospitality endeared him to a host of friends in private life. He 

 was unmarried. He was a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies, a Mem- 

 ber of the Entomological Societies of London and Stettin, and one of the eight 

 Members of the Entomological Club. Besides his general love of Nature, he, for 

 many years, devoted considerable attention to Coleojitera, of which he formed a 

 collection ; but his ardour relaxed, and for a long time he had given up active par- 

 ticipation in entomological pursuits, yet to the last he retained an interest in 

 Entomology and Entomologists. 



Dr. Hermann Milller, of Lippstadt, died at Prad, in the Tyrol, on August 25th. 

 All readers of Darwin's works will have realized how greatly our illustrious jihiloso- 

 pher was assisted by the brothers (Hermann and Fritz) Mi'ller. Tlie fraternal 

 partnership has now been dissolved through the death of the senior, but he leaves a 

 son who has sliown himself ready to follow in the footsteps of his father. Hermann 

 Miiller, as contrasted with his surviving brother, was probably a botanist rather 

 than an entomologist. But his two principal works (" Die Befruchtung der Blumen," 

 1873, of which an English translation has appeared this year, and " Alpenblumen, 

 ihre Befruchtung durch Insekten," 1881), belong quite as much to entomology as to 

 botany. He opened up quite a new field of investigation in the intimate relations 

 between insects and plants, and in connection (herewith most of his vacations were 

 devoted to excursions to the higher Alps. His investigations on the part played by 

 insects in effecting fertilization and cross-fertilization in plants probably led him to 

 speculations on the origin of colour in flowers. Hermann Miiller belonged pro- 

 fessionally to that great scholastic element in Germany that has produced so many 

 thorough workers in Natural History. 



The Rev. H. Harpnr Crewe, M.A., Eector of Drayton Beauchamp, near Tring, 

 died on the 7th September, after a long illness, aged 54. Although Mr. Crewe's 

 Natural History studies neither commenced nor ended with entomology, the best 

 years of his life were devoted to the study of British Lepidoptera, and especially to 

 the difficult genus Eupithecia, in his investigations of which he made for himself a 

 truly European reputation. The earliest published note by Mr. Crewe with which 

 we are acquainted appeared in the " Zoologist " for 1848 (he would then be 19 years 

 old), on an ornithological subject, and for a few subsequent years he continued to 

 send notes on British Birds. In the same periodical for 1851, he a2-)pcared as a 

 contributor of notes on British Lepidoptera, and in 1854 (I. c, p. 4370) is a list of 

 species of Evpithecia he had reared from larvse, the first indication of attention to 

 the branch in which he was ultimately to gain considerable distinction. In 1859 he 

 published descriptions of the larvae of many EnpithecicB, and thenceforward, until 

 quite recently, he continued to publish the results of his investigations of this genus 

 (varied by notes on other Lepidoptera) in the "Zoologist," "Intelligencer," " Ento- 



