1892.) ]_g5 



" Wanderings " of the account of the hidiorous nocturnal adventure with ants of a 

 visitor to a West Indian plantation, which he published in the Entomol. Zeitung 

 for 1876. That periodical, which is the organ of the Stettin Society, and was edited 

 bj Dohrn as long as he remained President, also contains copious articles by him, 

 many of them descriptive of new species of beetles, and many relating to authors 

 and their works, and notes of travel. His own collection of Coleoptera was very 

 extensive, almost unique in the completeness of some families and genera, such as, 

 for instance, the Paussidce, and nothing delighted him more than the acquisition of 

 a specimen of a new species of these, his darlings. 



But Dohrn was much besides an entomologist, for he excelled as a littSrafeur, 

 and among other things translated from the Spanish into German several of the 

 plays of Calderon. These, we believe, brought him under the notice of the king, 

 Frederick William lY, and his musical talents made him often a welcome visitor at 

 the royal palace. 



This leads us to speak of Dohrn as a musician. He was not only a dramatic 

 singer, but a performer on the piano with an excellence rarely attained by any but 

 professionals, not only as regards mechanical efficiency, but with an intellectual and 

 appreciative understanding of the works of the greatest mastei's. To hear him was 

 one of the greatest enjoyments possible. 



In his own house he was most hospitable, kind and considerate, and those who 

 have enjoyed his company on such occasions have ever felt an aching void when they 

 came to an end. Of such a man it may truly be said, in the words of Campbell — 



" To live in hearts we leave behind, 

 Is not to die." 

 —J. W. D. 



^0([i(!tii;s. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : 3Iai/ 9th, 1892. — Mr. G-. H. Kenrick, 

 F.E.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Eobert Allday, Handsworth, was elected a Member. 



Mr. P.W.Abbot showed Melitcea Athalia from Abbott's Wood, also from South 

 of France ; Oporina croceago, taken on sallow blossoms at Wyre Forest, and other 

 Lepidoptera. Mr. Kenrick remarked that the English Athalia were finer than the 

 French. Mr. Q-. W. Wynn showed, a number of moths taken at the sallows at 

 Moreton Green, including TcBniocampa popu/eti, gracilis, &c. Mr. R. C. Bradley 

 read a paper on the Tipulidce, showing six boxes of specimens in illustration ; he 

 said that there were 170 British species, out of which he had taken 112, also one 

 new to Britain, two formerly considered as doubtfully British, and one or two, 

 perhaps, new to science. — Colbran J. Wainwbigut, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Mat/ 9th, 1892. — 

 Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A., read a paper, entitled, " Butterfly Life before 



