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and practicable, and were not established according to any set of rules or principles ; 

 and I think, therefore, the practice of " emending " in conformity with the supposi- 

 tion that a particular line of formation would have been adopted by the G-reeks is a 

 bad one. This has always been my own opinion, and I am now pretty well convinced 

 by the course of recent discussions that it is the view that will ultimately prevail. — 

 D. Shaep, Cambridge : March IQth, 1892. 



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George Haggar died on the 10th January last at his residence, Ore, Hastings, 

 of bronchitis, aged 75. He was not known to the present race of entomologists, but 

 40—50 years ago he was an ardent collector of Lepidoptera, and though he made 

 no claim to scientific knowledge he had a keen perception of apparent differences of 

 species. He deserves honourable mention and record as one of the men of the time 

 who did very much to ascertain by actual investigation what species inhabited 

 Britain. He was then my constant and genial companion, and I have a vivid re- 

 membrance of the many hunting excursions we made together, both by day with 

 nets, and by night with sugar-pots and lanterns. He made many notable captures 

 of species then very rare, such, for example, as Leucania turca, CucuUia gnaphalii, 

 and Eupithecia togata, and he was (with me) the re-discoverer, at St. Osyth, of 

 Geometra smaragdaria. His great delight was in hunting, — to make a collection 

 was a secondary object, for he gave away all his captures. — J. W. Douglas. 



Francis Archer, B.A. — It is with great regret I announce the death of my late 

 friend Mr. Francis Archer, B.A., &c., &c., who passed away on Monday last, after a 

 week's illness of diphtheria, at his residence, 21, Mulgrave Street, Liverpool, aged 52. 

 He was the son of the late Francis Archer, M.E,.C.S.,a well-known medical practitioner 

 in Liverpool, who was also a naturalist, his speciality being conchology. He left 

 two sons, both of whom inherited their father's inborn love of Natural History. 

 His eldest son, Surgeon-Major Samuel Archer, has been much abroad with his 

 regiment, and for years has been in the habit of contributing valued objects of 

 Natural History to the Liverpool Museum. His brother, whose death we now so 

 deeply mourn, held a high position in his profession, that of a solicitor in Liverpool, 

 and was much respected and loved by his confreres, a number of whom were present 

 at his funeral yesterday. Mr. Archer was a man of high culture, and most genial 

 disposition, an ardent politician, and a born naturalist. He was one of the first 

 who appreciated the late Mr. Darwin's views on the " Origin of Species," &c. He 

 possessed a very practical knowledge of conchology and entomology, and was always 

 ready to assist and encourage young people in their scientific and natural history 

 investigations. He was one of the first to enrol himself a Member of our Lan- 

 cashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, in which he always took a deep 

 interest. His loss at so comparatively young an age is, indeed, very great. Those 

 who knew him intimately, as I have done for the last 25 years, will mourn a kind 

 congenial friend, whilst science has one less ardent follower in Liverpool. — Samuel 

 James Cappee, Huyton Park : March Uh, 1892. 



