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Melanism. The Organizing Committee of the Zoological Section invite those who 

 are willing to take part to communicate with L, Doncaster, Zoological Laboratory, 

 Cambridge, stating the species and number of specimens which they are prepared 

 to send. It is hoped that a paper on Melanism will be read at the Meeting by Mr. 

 G. T. Porritt, of Hudderj^field. who has devoted much attention to the subject in 

 his district, and that it will be followed by a discussion. — Eds. 



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The Rev. Edward Carteret Dobree Fox, 31. A. — It was with great regret that 

 we heard of the death of the Rev. E. C. Dobree Fox, which took place, during the 

 past winter, at about the age of three score years. His undergraduate days were 

 spent at Exeter College, Oxfoi'd, and, having taken his B.A. degree in 1872, he pro- 

 ceeded to that of M.A. three years later. Ordained as Deacon in 1873, and Priest 

 in the following year, he was Curate, successively, of Ticknall, Derbyshire, Alsager's 

 Bank, Staffordshire, and Castle Moreton, Worcestershire, and being appointed Vicar 

 of the last-named parish in 1881, he held the living until the time of his death. 

 Mr. Dobree Fox was an energetic and successful collector of the British Macro- 

 Lepidoptera, and such prizes as Xylomiges conspicillaris, Dasycampa rubigluea, 

 Xylina semihrunnea, and Eupitheda consigaata, rewarded his efforts in the Castle 

 Moreton district at various times. His summer holiday was usually spent in some 

 specially-favoured locality, and in the course of his visits to South Devon, Leucania 

 vitellina, L. alblpuncta, Laphygma exigua, and Hellothis peltigera, were among 

 the rare species that he was fortunate enough to secure. Many notes from our 

 friend's pen, relating to his collecting experiences in general, and some of his most 

 interesting captures in particular, are scattered through the pages of " The Entomo- 

 logist's Record." He amassed a fairly large collection, which has just been dispersed 

 by auction.— Eustace R. Bankes. 



Leon Fairmaire. — The death is announced of this veteran French Entomolo- 

 gist, on April 1st, aged 86. He was Honorary President of the Societe Entomo- 

 logique de France, having joined that Society in 1842 ; and Honorary Member of 

 the Belgian and various other Societies. His first paper was published in the 

 French " Annales " for 1843, on " Trois nouvelles especes d'Insectes de I'Oceanie " 

 (Coleoptera), and the last in 1905, entitled " Description de Coleopteres Hete'ro- 

 meres de la Republique Argentine" The innumerable memoirs, mostly descrip- 

 tive, written by him were mainly devoted to Coleoptera, though in the list of 

 Members of the French Society he is quoted as a specialist in Hymenoptera and 

 Semiptera. His " Faune Entomologique Fran^aise," written in conjunction with 

 Dr. A. Laboulbene, containing concise descriptions of the Coleoptera of France, is 

 well known to British Entomologists ; it was never finished. Tome I (1854), 

 including the Geodephaga, water-beetles, Claoicornia and Staphylinidx only. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal Histoey Society : 

 Thursday, April I2tk. — Mr. R. Adkin, President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. L. W. Newman, of Bexley, was elected a Member. 



