120 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



mouth, and their passage through the long, leathery 

 haustellum, or promuscis, into the oesophagus and stomach, 

 there to constitute the support of these flower-loving flies. I 

 have before me a most interesting autobiography of this 

 excellent naturalist and kind man^and from this I have made 

 the following brief extract: — "I Was born at Stratford, in the 

 parish of West Ham, Essex, near London, on the llth of 

 August, 1807. My parents, Moses and Elizabeth Deane, 

 being members of the Society of Friends, I was brought up 

 in that persuasion, and continued a member thereof until my 

 marriage in 1843. For nearly the first eleven years the only 

 sound instruction I received was from my beloved parents. 

 Although I was sent to what was considered a good day- 

 school, in the immediate neighbourhood, I have a most 

 distinct recollection of its utter inefficiency as a place for 

 communicating even the merest rudiments of knowledge, and 

 it was not until my father sent me to a school at Epping that 

 I had the slightest idea of what it was to be systematically 

 taught, and to know the value and pleasure of learning. 

 Amongst my schoolfellows were Henry and Edward Double- 

 day, who have since attained a world-wide notoriety as 

 entomologists. I was occasionally favoured with an invitation 

 to go home with them to tea, occasions which were highly 

 prized, as affording opportunities for seeing their collections 

 and illustrated books of Natural History. From collecting 

 insects, collecting plants and drying them— without regard to 

 names, but for their intrinsic beauty — seemed naturally to 

 follow. Thus habits of observing the beauties of creative 

 wisdom were early fixed in my heart, and I often look back 

 with thankfulness to that now far distant day when my 

 friends the Doubledays sowed that seed wdiich was to keep 

 out many temptations to evil, and prove such a lasting 

 source of pure enjoyment." When sixteen years of age 

 Mr. Deane attended a series of lectures on Natural and 

 Experimental Philosophy, at the Mathematical Society's 

 Kooras in Crispin Street. These w^ere so admirably delivered, 

 and made so deep an impression on his ardent mind then 

 thirsting for knowledge, that they constituted, as he himself 

 tells us, a turning-point in his life; and although afterwards 

 for many years assiduous at his business of chemist and 

 druggist, he never lost his intense love for natural Science up 

 to the hour of his death. — Edward Newman. 



