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which sometimes arose, he was persuaded hy the rest of the staff 

 to join us, and his extreme carefulness made him a most vahiable 

 colleague. Affable, genial, and urbane, as well as a man of great 

 intellectual culture, he was recently described by Mr. Verrall, the 

 nestor of the Entomological Club, as an ideal member — generous, 

 hospitable, kind — and we who knew him best can well endorse these 

 sentiments, for he was a man of high and lofty character, generous 

 and impulsive instincts, who made friends everywhere, and who will be 

 missed alike by the collectors who hunted with him, and the students 

 who worked with him. His great success in his profession left him with 

 comparatively little leisure, but the careful work he has left scattered 

 through the pages of the Entumolofiisfs Monthhj Magazine and Ento- 

 niohviist's Record, will remain a tribute to his unflagging energy and 

 untiring industry. His last important note, the review of Morley's 

 second volume Ickneuwoninae, was written when the fatal complaint 

 that carried him off had evidently strong hold of him, and his 

 ill-health at the November meetings of the Entomological Society, 

 was only too patent to everybody. Still none of us had then a 

 suspicion that his end was so near. But his recovery was not to be, 

 and we can now only offer this all too weak tribute to the memory of 

 our revered colleague, coupled with our sincerest sympathies to the 

 gentle lady, whom Fate has so ruthlessly left a widow and her children 



fatherless. 



Martin Jacoby, F.E.S. 



Born April 12th, 1842. Died December 2'kth, 1907. 

 It is with the greatest regret that we have to record the death 

 of Martin Jacoby, on December 24th, 1907, in his 67th yetir. Born at 

 Altona, he settled in England when twenty years of age, and has since 

 resided here. An accomplished musician, he was a member of " Halle's " 

 band, and later of the orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera, and we, who 

 have been accustomed to meet him at social entomological functions, 

 have especial cause to mourn his loss, both on this account, as well as 

 because of the great blank he leaves in the rank of our coleopterists. 

 For some years he has been on the editorial staff of the Entonioloi/ist, be- 

 came a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1886, etc., was 

 for some years a Member of the Council, and has enriched the Transac- 

 tumfi of the Entomolof/ieal Society of London with many papers on the Phyto- 

 phagous Coleoptera. He was the author of the volume on the "Phyto- 

 phaga" in the Biologin Centrali- Americana ; and his volume on the 

 same subject in the Fauna of India, was just completed (in print), 

 though not published, at the time of his death. His collection of 

 this group passed, some years since, into the hands of M. Rene 

 Oberthiir. He was slightly interested in British lepidoptera, but 

 his knowledge of this order was of the slenderest, and the modern 

 theories in explanation of the phenomena of " Mimicry " in insects, 

 always found in him a most uncompromising opponent. His death, 

 coupled with that of A. J. Chitty, cast quite a gloom over the 

 proceedings for a short time at Mr. Verrall's annual supper to the 

 members of the Entomological Club and their friends, on January 

 14th, for he had, for )uany years past, generously given of the best 

 that his musical repertoire commanded, at this function, and charmed 

 and delighted, year after year, the company, who were not only his 

 entomological, but often his most intimate, friends. 



