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Lancashire and Cheshiue Entomological Society. — The 

 annual meeting of this vigorous Society was hekl in a lecture-room 

 at the Free Library, Liverpool, on the 30th January, the president, 

 Mr. S. J. Capper, in the chair. After re-election to that office for 

 the sixth time, Mr. Capper gave an interesting resume of the history 

 and work done by the Society since its foundation early in 1877. 

 Since that period fifty-six meetings had been held, at which fifty- 

 one papers had been read, forty-five of which had been contri- 

 buted by its own members, which now number about sixty. A 

 circulating library of entomological works has been formed, with 

 a goodly number of volumes, and more pleasing still is it to find 

 how largely it has been used. Much praise is due to the officers, 

 whose energy has brought about this desirable condition. — 

 J. T. C. 



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Robert W. Sinclair. — This high-spirited and energetic 

 young entomologist died January 28th, somewhat unexpectedly, 

 of acute pneumonia, at Sir Patrick Dunn's Hospital, Dublin. 

 Mr. Sinclair, whose age was but twenty-two years, was the son of 

 the late Robert S. Sinclair, LL.D., Minister of Public Instruction 

 in the Province of Berar, India. Sad as it is at all times to part 

 with an ardent lover of Nature, it seems doubly so when it is he 

 who only a few weeks ago was pleasantly chatting with us, and 

 apparently promising so much in after life. At the funeral of 

 Mr. Sinclair, which was largely attended by his fellow-students 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Houghton, in an address 

 given at the grave, having paid a high tribute to the deceased's 

 father, added, " and his son, whose early death we now deplore, 

 bid fair to outshine him." Only a few days before his death the 

 Royal Hibernian Academy gave him a grant to enable him to 

 continue his entomological researches during the coming season. 

 Mr. Sinclair was intended for the medical profession, and had 

 but one examination to pass before completing his college 

 course. — J. T. C. 



J. W. JoBSON. — It is with regret we have to announce the 

 early death of this young collector, so well known for his energetic 

 work in the New Forest, &c. Mr. Jobson fell a victim to our 

 national disease — consumption — at the age of twenty-one years. 

 He died at his father's house, Leyton, on the 10th February. — 

 J. T. C. 



