120 THE ENToMOLOGISt. 



Collection to such persons as may apply to the officer in 

 charge for permission to inspect it. — I am, Sir, your obedient 

 servant, Runcliffe Owen, 



J. A. Clakk, Esq. Director, S. Ken. 



11, Duncan Place, London Fields, Hackney, E. 



Death of Thomas Wilkinson. — We regret to have to 

 chronicle the death of Thon)as Wilkinson, the distinguished 

 entomologist. Mr. Wilkinson died on Thursday morning, 

 April 13lh, at his residence in Cliff Bridge Place. The 

 cause of death is supposed to have been internal rupture. 

 By profession Mr. Wilkinson was a butler; but during the 

 latter part of his life he was in a slate of independence. At the 

 time of his death he would be fifly-eight years of age. Mr. 

 Wilkinson was known as an entomologist, not only in 

 Britain, but on the continent of Europe. The greater part of 

 his life he devoted to patient and persevering efforts in 

 rearing our Micro-Lepidoptera, and watching them through 

 the stages of their minute existence. By his indefatigable 

 exertions he succeeded in unloosing many a Gordian knot 

 that would have continued to puzzle the mere theorist for 

 years to come. His knowledge was not confined to entomo- 

 logical science. He was also a great botanist, and was more 

 or less acquainted with many other natural sciences. It was 

 not a little owing to the fine combination of knowledge 

 which he possessed that he succeeded so eminently and so 

 practically in his own favourite branch. He leaves behind 

 him a collection of entomological specimens, which is declared 

 by competent judges to be the best in the country. Mr. Wil- 

 kinson united to his great abilities as a naturalist many 

 personal virtues. He was a steady, upright man, mild and 

 unobtrusive in his manner. There was no element of selfish- 

 ness in his composition. A true lover of Nature, his mind 

 was commonly absorbed in his delightful studies ; and he 

 was thus elevated above all meanness. Regardless of praise 

 or reward, he humbly laboured in that field of science which 

 he made his own. In the death of Mr. Wilkinson the town 

 of Scarborough has sustained a great loss. — ' Scarborough 

 Gazette; April 20, 1876. 



Errata. — P. lOo, line '] (present number), " Fourray " should be " Fuurcroy ; " 

 lines 8 and !>, after " S. gibba" read "is coarsely, that of S. rufescens finely, 

 punctured." — Edward Newman. 



