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Spence) remains. Of course he was best known as a botanist, and as the author of 

 the " Manual of British Botany," wliich has passed through ciglit editions. He also 

 wrote numerous other works on botanical subjects But at one time he was an 

 ardent entomologist, and it is probable that Entomology in his youth had more at- 

 tractions for him than Botany. Between 1829 and 1814 sixteen papers of more or 

 less importance on entomological subjects (especially Coleoptera) are credited to him, 

 but probably nothing entomological issued from his pen after the latter date, though 

 his botanical studies appear to have been occasionally varied by archaeological and 

 antiquarian researches. 



Prof. Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstdcker, M.D.—lt is with much regret we 

 notice the decease of this prominent German Entomologist on July 20th last at 

 Greifswald, at the age of 67. He was educated for the medical profession, and took 

 his degree, but pi-obably never practised, preferring to devote himself to Zoology, 

 and especially to Entomology. For many years he was Keeper of the Entomological 

 Department of the Berlin Natural History Museum, and also Teacher of Zoology in 

 the University of that city ; but about the year 1876 differences with the then 

 Director of the Museum induced him to resign his appointments at Berlin, and he 

 subsequently accepted the Professorship of Zoology at Greifswald, which he held 

 until his death. Gerstiieker was a most industrious and thorough worker in all 

 departments of Entomology, and of Arthropoda as a whole. Much of his work 

 took the form of monographs of groups or genera, and his published papers at the 

 time of his death were very numerous. He rendered infinite help to his fellow 

 students by compiling the entomological portion of the German " Bericht " (the 

 forerunner and subsequent contemporary of the English " Zoological Record ") from 

 the year 1853 down to 1867. Amongst his principal separate works may be noticed 

 a " Monographic der Endomychiden " (1858) ; the Arthropoda in the " Handbuch 

 der Zoologie " (1863), an admirable resume o^ the subject marked by much originality 

 of treatment ; and the Arthropoda in Bronn's " Klassen und Ordnungen der Tlieir- 

 Reichs," but this latter, commenced in 1866, proceeded very slowly, and at the time 

 of his death we think he never got beyond the Crustnrea, and that even these were 

 not completed. We have no space to notice his published papers in any detailed 

 manner. In 1873 he brought out a remarkable memoir, entitled " Zur Morphologic 

 der Orthoptera-amphibiotica," a term he employed to cover those Pseudo-Neuropte- 

 rous families in which the early stages are aquatic. Most of his later papers were on 

 the megalopterous division of the Neuroptera (= Planipennia, Rambur),in which he 

 described many new forms. His comparative isolation at Greifswald in his later years 

 placed him at a disadvantage. His descriptions were usually full and clear, and if (as 

 is sure to be the case) many of his more recently described species fall as synonyms, 

 the fact should be attributed more to the incompleteness and crudeness of his pre- 

 decessor than to him. To posterity the name of Gerstiieker will lake a prominent 

 position amongst the entomologists of the second half of the present century, and 

 we had hoped that position might have been maintained into at least the first decade 

 of the next. 



Jules Ferdinand Fallou died at his residence in Paris on June 19th, 1895, 

 aged 83. Commencing as an artisan, by his skill and diligence he gradually estab- 

 lished for himself a business and reputation as a surgical instrument maker of the 



