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will be the poorer for the vast amount of work which, at the age of 68, 

 he was still prepared to give it from his prolific brain, 



William Forsell Kirby died on November 20th, at his residence in 

 Chiswick, after a short illness. lie was buried in Chiswick Cemetery 

 on the 26th, being attended to the grave by a large gathering of 

 sorrowing friends. — W.E.K. 



Arnold Wullschlegel. 



The last of the well-known lepidopterists of the Rhone Valley 

 has been removed by the death of Arnold Wullschlegel, at Martigny, 

 on November 18th, on his 63rd birthday. His death will not 

 have come as a surprise to any of his friends, since more than 

 two years ago he was afflicted with three strokes of paralysis within a 

 fortnight, after the last of which he never spoke again, though he 

 retained his intellect unimpaired. He is best known as the colla- 

 borator of the late Chanoine Favre in the " Macro-Lepidoptera of the 

 Valais," but having bred an immense number of species from the egg, 

 he had naturally acquired vast stores of knowledge of their early 

 stages, much of which will in all probability be lost to the world. He 

 leaves a widow who for many years has shared his entomological 

 labours, and though she has so far published nothing, it is possible 

 that through her means some part of this hardly-acquired knowledge 

 may be preserved for the service of future generations. — G. W. 



