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there is plenty of blue sky and sunshine. I may as well add, that I met with 

 Limnolia nigrina and irimaeulata B,nd Tipula plumhea dit^onYwexnonih on the 26th. 

 — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : May \2th, 1892. 



©bituarit. 



Dr. Carl August Dohrn died on the morning of May 4t]i, at Stettin, in the 

 86th year of his age, having been born on June 27th, 1806. He having lived so long 

 we can hardly say his demise was unexpected, yet after all, even when its advent 

 seems near, death always comes as a surprise and with a shock to survivors. He 

 had wished that his end might be sudden, and he obtained his desire. For some 

 years, in order to escape the rigour of a northern climate, he had spent the winter 

 in Italy, but the last season he remained at home, and in the autumn had an attack 

 of influenza, from which, however, he had fairly recovered, for we heard from him 

 that at the end of January he had been able to resume his entomological studies, 

 and was in high spirits, " having received upwards of 1000 beetles from Sumatra 

 which kept him busy from morning to night." 



We are not aware of the cause of his bias towards entomology, but Hagen gives 

 his first published article as in the " Entomologische Zeitung " for 1845, but he 

 must have been an entomologist long before that time. On the death, at the com- 

 paratively early age of 39, of Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, the first President of the 

 Entomological Society of Stettin, which had been founded in 1839, C. A. Dohrn, 

 who was then ofEciating as Secretary of the Society, was selected for the vacant post, 

 and at the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, November 51 h, 184-3, was duly elected 

 President, a position he continued to hold for upwards of 40 years. He retired in 

 1887, and the post was conferred upon his eldest son. Dr. Heinrich Dohrn. His 

 youngest son, Dr. Anton Dohrn, is the well-known founder of the Zoological Station 

 at Naples. 



The flourishing state of the Society during all this time is the best evidence of 

 the power of Dohrn to attract and keep together the bulk of the entomologists of 

 G-ermany and many of other countries, and his influence remained great. Coleoptera 

 occupied his own attention, but he had a regard for insects of other Orders, if only 

 for the reason that it brought him into communication with the lovers of them ; 

 for he had a sympathy not only with entomologists as such, but also as cultivators 

 of a sense of pleasure and enjoyment in the varied realm of Nature, and he was 

 able, as a rule, to give far more general information on cognate matters than he re- 

 ceived. He often visited other countries : he came to England several times, amongst 

 others in 1852 with Zeller, in 1854 with Boheman, and in 1857 with Hagen. He 

 was elected a Member of the Entomological Society of London in 1855, and an 

 Honorary Member in 1885. 



Besides being a good classic, he had a very competent knowledge of European 

 languages, most of which he could speak, read and write with facility, and he was 

 delighted to get a good story in any of them, for he had a keen sense of wit and 

 humour. He learned English in order to read Shakespeare's works in the original, 

 and he had a more intimate knowledge of them than most Englishmen; and as 

 evidence of his proficiency in English may be quoted his translation from Waterton's 



