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valuable papers being those on " Melanism " and on " Agrotisfennica," 

 appearing in two of the issues for 1887. These were epoch-making 

 contributions, and Mr. J. W. Tutt, in his papei's on Melanism pub- 

 lished a few years later, spoke eulogistically of their author as " our 

 greatest authority on continental Noctuae." 



Mr. Dobree also contributed largely to the local records published 

 in the 'Naturahst ' from 1881 to 1901, and was President of the Hull 

 Field Naturalists' Society during the years 1884-86. 



In 1904 Mr. Dobree presented his collection of European Noctuae 

 to the Hull Museum. It consists of nearly one thousand geographical 

 forms, and of more than six hundred examples of preserved larvse. 

 In the preservation of larvae Mr. Dobr6e was a pioneer, and by his 

 universal kindness helped many other students to take an interest in 

 this branch of knowledge. His collection has for some months been 

 undergoing the process of cataloguing, and a fully descriptive cata- 

 logue will shortly be issued by the Museums Committee of the 

 Hull Corporation, thus rendering the unique collection more widely 

 known and more useful — it is hoped — to students in other parts 

 of the country, as well as to those living in the remote corner of 

 Holderness. 



H. B. B. 



Arthur John Chitty, who died on January 6th last, aged forty- 

 eight years, was a barrister with a large practice as a company 

 lawyer. During his University career at Oxford he on several 

 occasions kept wicket for the University eleven, and played in the 

 Association football team ; he also rowed for his college eight, but 

 failed to get in the trial eights. He obtained a first class in Classical 

 Moderations and a second class in the Final School of Litterse 

 Humaniores. His entomological interest was chiefly centred in the 

 Coleoptera, in the investigation of the habits of which he was 

 especially successful. Other orders also received his attention, and 

 recently he had commenced to study the Proctotrypidae, a family 

 of parasitic Hymenoptera, including some of the smallest winged 

 insects. He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London in 1891, and had served on the Council since 1906. He was 

 also a member of the Entomological Club, into which he was elected 

 in 1904. 



Henry Alfred Auld died on December 28th, 1907, at the age 

 of fifty-three. He was for many years in the Bank of England. As 

 a collector of Lepidoptera he was most persevering, and never spared 

 himself any trouble in endeavouring to attain his object. Unfortu- 

 nately he did not consider his field observations of sufficient interest 

 to place on record, and consequently he rarely contributed anything 

 to entomological literature. He was a member of the South Londoil 

 Entomological Society from 1888 to 1897. •'' 



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