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of this group ; therefore a large proportion of the species of insects 

 taken were new to science. The birds of this collection have 

 been described by Mr. Seebohm, and the Lepidoptera are yet 

 undescribed. The results in the group Coleoptera were especially 

 good. Mr. Oliver Janson, of Little Russell Street, London, 

 acted in England as Mr. Fryer's agent in matters zoological, and 

 we owe to Mr. Janson our thanks for much of the material from 

 which this notice has been constructed. — J. T. C. 



M. E. Glanville. — Intelligence of the death of Miss Glan- 

 ville, the able and kind-hearted Lady Curator of the Albany 

 Museum, Graham's Town, South Africa, will be received with 

 great regret by her home friends ; and in her scientific labours, 

 amongst her many surrounding friends in her own adopted 

 land, her loss will be keenly felt. On the decease of her father, 

 the late B. J. Glanville, who might be termed the founder 

 of the Albany Museum at Graham's Town, Miss M. E. Glanville 

 was, to the great gratification of those connected with Natural 

 History in that district, elected to take his place, and there, up to 

 her last illness, terminating in her decease on April 4th, she 

 worked with an assiduity and intelligence which rendered the 

 results strikingl}^ methodical and complete. Her especial 

 claim to the notice of the readers of the ' Entomologist,' rests 

 on the practical as well as scientific attention she has long 

 been rendering to Economic Entomology. For years she has 

 devoted attention to the life-histories of the injurious crop 

 insects of East Province, S. Africa, and, in co-operation with a 

 few other leading observers, forwarded specimens of some of the 

 most injurious kinds to the writer, together with such notes as 

 could be procured of their histories. Those who are intimately 

 acquainted with the general carelessness existing as to these 

 points in ordinary colonial life, will appreciate the difficulties of 

 the work. Nevertheless, Miss Glanville, by her hearty devotion, 

 was able to collect some amount of data, which, there is good 

 reason to hope, will prove a sound starting-point for informa- 

 tion to gather round, and which will be of solid future benefit to 

 the agriculturists of the eastern portion of the colony. In the 

 words of a friend who knew her well, " good, amiable, self-sacri- 

 ficing, and obliging," she worked to the last, and declined to take 

 the rest needed, because, in her own words, her " absence would 

 necessitate closing the museum, and cause disappointment to 

 visitors." Marked respect was shown to the memory of the kind 

 and accomplished lady by the attendance at the funeral of many 

 scientific or personal friends, besides the members of her family, 

 and her loss is one which will be much felt, both as a friend and 

 hearty labourer. — E. A. Ormerod. 



