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he did not hesitate to apply his own income to the acquisition 

 of a specimen or a collection which he considered it important 

 that the nation should possess. Indeed the growth of the 

 collection under so liberal a regime outran the means of 

 accommodation, and the crowded state of the shelves soon 

 tended in some degree to preclude the careful examination of 

 the multitudinous objects assembled. 



The task of describing and cataloguing these vast 

 collections followed as a matter of course. This was a most 

 Herculean labour, and one that could not be accomplished 

 single-handed. Dr. Gray therefore engaged the assistance 

 and co-operation of the most advanced zoologists in every 

 department of the Science. Thus, through his instrumentality, 

 we have eigltt catalogues of sucklers, tliree of sucklers and 

 birds together, tiine of birds, six of reptiles, and twelve of 

 fishes. It is, however, in entomology that he has rendered 

 the greatest service to Science, having issued nine catalogues 

 of Coleoptera, Jive of Orthoptera, Jive of Neuroptera, ten of 

 Ilemiptera, fortij-one of Lepidoptera, seven of Diptera, and 

 three of Crustacea. In addition to these we have sixteen 

 catalogues or lists of Molluscous, and four of Radiate animals. 

 Again, we have a series of twenty catalogues of exclusively 

 British animals; thus by separating the British from the 

 general collections, the English student has the opportunity 

 of acquiring with less labour a knowledge of the natural pro- 

 ductions of his own country. This simple enumeration of 

 catalogues exhibits more clearly than can be done by any 

 words of mine, what Dr. Gray accomplished on behalf of 

 Natural History in our country, but these catalogues by no means 

 comprise the whole of his most useful labours in this direction. 

 In the " Spicelegia Zoologica" he published original figures 

 and short systematic descriptions of new and previously 

 unfigured animals, and these were continued in the "Zoological 

 Miscellany," a serial having ihe same style and objects. He 

 also contributed the natural history portion of the voyages of 

 the " Erebus and Terror," only lately completed. Of his 

 various minor papers the list alone, published in 1852, 

 occupies twenty pages in the " Bibliographia Zoologiae;" 

 and the Catalogue of the Royal Society enumerates no 

 less than four hundred and ninety-seven papers from his ever- 

 active pen. 



