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Naturalist," a quarterlj journal, and continued to edit it down to 1882. In conjunc- 

 tion with the late Sir Thomas Moncreiffe he founded the Perthshire Society of 

 Natural Science, was for long its President, and edited its Transactions. He joined 

 the Entomological Society of London in 1868, and the Linnean Society in 1873. On 

 the whole we should probably consider White's bent as tending towards Botany 

 moi'e than Zoology : one of his latest papers was an attempt to discriminate the 

 British Willows, which was published in the Journal of the Linnean Society in 

 1890. But bis versatility was great, and his knowledge of almost all branches of 

 Scottish entomology very extensive. At one time he commenced collecting exotic 

 Hemiptera, and acquired much material, an indirect outcome of which was his 

 memoir on the Pelagic Hemiptera collected during the "Challenger" expedition, 

 which showed great powers of research, and was proof of what he could have done 

 had he concentrated his attention. He seldom visited England, and hence was 

 little known personally down south, but his death makes a conspicuous gap in the 

 enterprising group of naturalists ijorth of the border. He leaves a widow and 

 large family. 



John Richard Wellman. — On the cover of our last No. we alluded to the death 

 of this well-known British Lepidopterist, which occurred on November 12th, in his 

 62nd year. He was first President of the flourishing South London Entomological 

 Society, which was established in 1872, and continued to act as such for some years, 

 and was again elected in 1883. He was a genial unassunjing man, with much 

 knowledge of his subject, but for several years before his death had been able to do 

 but little actively, owing to ill health. 



Lancashibe and Cheshiee Entomological Society -. Becemler 10th, 1894. 

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



Messrs. Harry Jackson, of Bolton, and Rhodes, of Accrington, were elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Mr. Eobert Newstead, F.E.S., of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, gave an 

 almost complete account of the life-history of Scolytus rugulosxis, Ratz., one of 

 the wood-boring Coleoptera, and gave detailed descriptions of the boring and 

 oviposition of the insect. The lecture was illustrated by diagrams, specimens, 

 and microscopic preparations shown with the aid of the oxy-hydrogen micro lantern. 

 Mr. Douglas Walker exhibited specimens of Scapula decrepiialis and the rare 

 Phibalapteryx lapidata recently captured by himself in Argyleshire. Mr. Newstead 

 also exhibited Lecanium perforatum and other species through the micro lantern. — 

 F. N. Pierce, Hon. Secretary, 7, The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool. 



Entomological Society or London : December 5th, 1894. — Henry John 

 Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Augustus Bowles, M.A., of Myddelton House, Waltham Cross, Herts ; 

 Mr. E. C. Cotes, of the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Mr. WoUey-Dod, of Calgary, 

 Alberta, Canada; Mr. Joseph W. Green, of West Lodge, Blackheath, S.E. ; Mr. 

 Henry Kceble, of 10, Coleman Street, E.C. ; and Mr. Thomas Turner, of CuUomptom, 

 Devon ; were elected Fellows of the Sociefv. 



