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As in Strand's former papers, there is at the commencement a useful 

 tabulation of the species met with (1-531 in all) and the localities where 

 each occurred. Faunistically, the article is of distinct value, and it 

 should he consulted by all who are interested in the distribution of 

 the lepidoptera in the district investigated. 



It is with the greatest regret that we record the death of our 

 neighbour, Mr. R. MaLachlan, F.R.S., on May 2Hrd last, at the age of 

 67 years. His high position in the entomological world has long been 

 assured. Joining the Entomological Society of London when only 

 seventeen years of age, he has, during the past 40 years, filled almost 

 every possible official position, having been President, Vice-President, 

 Member of Council, or Treasurer, almost continuously since the middle 

 " sixties," although it is in the latter position he will be best 

 remembered by the younger entomologists. Commencing entomological 

 work as a lepidopterist in the early " fifties," he was a frequent con- 

 tributor to the pages of the h!nt(iiiioloiiist's Wcekbi Intelliin'mrr, and, as a 

 neighbour of Douglas and Stainton. became an active participator in the 

 starting and subsequent continuation of 'I'lw KntotnoUxiiat's Movtldy 

 Magazine, of which, since the death of Stainton, he has been more or 

 less the active manager. His early studies soon drifted of!' to the "^l-'ri- 

 choptera and Odonata, and his work on the former group is still the 

 classic in its particular branch. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and Honorary Member of several of the leading entomological societies 

 of the Continent, he has — besides his publications in P)ritain^ — written a 

 fair amount of work for foreign 'J'raiisartvms, more recently for those 

 of Belgium, the celebrated lielgian savant, de Selys Longchamps, 

 having been for many years his great personal friend, and the two 

 have collaborated more or less in a great deal of their work. He 

 remained a bachelor till his death, and his reserved disposition led 

 many to misunderstand him, and some, among the more goahead of 

 the younger generation, failed, no doubt, to fully appreciate his great 

 ability. He was, however, at heart an excellent man, and when he 

 had once made friends, he held to them tenaciously aiid obtained the 

 greatest pleasure from their society. He had been in failing health 

 for some time, and his retired life and the way in which he had of 

 recent years eschewed active exercise almost altogether, did not 

 improve matters, for, in his youth and early middle age, he was one of 

 the pioneers in the study of the fauna of the mountains of t'rance and 

 Switzerland, and explored the Dauphiny and Savoy Alps at a time 

 when inns wei-e unknown, when a shepherd's hut was the only 

 accommodation on the higher mountains, and when a holiday spent 

 in entomological studies among the Alps of central Europe spelt 

 something different from palatial hotels, abundant food, and great 

 comfort, and his unvarnished stories of those early entomological 

 trips were always a source of the greatest pleasure to the writer, who 

 has since travelled the same ground under so much more comfortable 

 conditions. His work is sound and thorough, and will always hold 

 its place among that of the pioneers in the branches he himself specially 

 studied. His face will be long missed from the meetings of the Society 

 he loved and served so well. Britain has lost one of her first 

 entomologists, but the mark he has left on entomology will endure 

 whilst there are entomologists, and whilst entomology holds an honoured 

 place among the serious studies of biological utid natural history 

 students. 



