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notice, knew the Rev. Canon He}^ at the time when he most assi- 

 duously worked the Coleoptera of York district, the announce- 

 ment of his death comes ahnost as a personal loss, and a 

 reminder that one may outlive one's earlieit friends. Although 

 not an obtrusive writer upon that branch of Entomology, Coleo- 

 ptera, which was his particular forte, few men knew the great 

 division Hydrodephega so well as he. His careful examination 

 of the aquatic life of the ponds adjoining the well-known boggy 

 ground near Askham resulted in the addition of, we believe, 

 more than one species to the British fauna, and many species, 

 which were almost unknown in the collections of the time, found 

 numerous representatives through the kindness of this amiable 

 collector. In his earlier life, while at Cambridge, he devoted 

 much attention to the Lepidoptera of the district, and used, 

 years afterwards, to point out with pride specimens of Polyommatus 

 Hippothoe in his collection as his own capture. Although a 

 man whose time was very fully occupied by constantly increasing 

 Church work — amongst other important appointments he was 

 Archdeacon of Cleveland, Canon Residentiary and Precentor of 

 York, Rural Dean, Vicar of St. Olives, York, and Examining 

 Chaplain to the Archbishop of York — the venerable Archdeacon 

 ever found opportunity to entertain even the most humble worker 

 in his favourite study, and to afford the student such assistance 

 as he might, with such felicity as to send away the young ento- 

 mologist feeling that in addition to obtaining knowledge he had 

 also made a friend. In the local scientific world he was associated 

 with the Yorkshire Pliilosophical Society, to the council of which 

 he was elected in 1841, and of which, at the time of his death, he 

 was one of the honorary curators, taking the meteorological 

 department of the Museum, and sole curator of the insects and 

 Crustacea; being likewise a vice-president of the Society. Arch- 

 deacon Hey was one of the early members of the British 

 Association, and will be well recollected by those who attended 

 the Jubilee of that Society, held last year in York, for the great 

 personal interest which he took in its business on that occasion. 

 We may conclude by observing that this is another instance of 

 hereditary scientific taste, his grandfather, William Hey, F.R.S., 

 of Leeds, being one of the shining-lights of his day in philosophy 

 and science. We understand the Rev. W. C. Hey, son of the late 

 Archdeacon, inherits his father's taste as a Coleopterist. — J. T. C. 



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