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Petersburgh, had informed him that he had found Mutilla 

 europaea in a nest of Bombus muscovum ; this being the first 

 instance that had come to his knowledge of the parasite 

 infesting the nests of that species of humble-bee. 



Death of Mr. Edwin Brown. — We regret to have to record 

 the death of Edwin Brown, of Burton-on-Trent, who has long 

 been widely known for his great and varied knowledge of 

 Natural History. His first contributions to scientific litera- 

 ture appeared in the year 184.3, in the pages of the first 

 volume of the ' Zoologist,' — quadrupeds, birds, insects, and 

 shells, being the subjects, — thus early foreshadowing that 

 breadth of study which he developed in later life. He 

 continued to send various short papers to the ' Zoologist,' 

 and afterwards contributed many and valuable papers to the 

 Northern Entomological Society and the Midland Scientific 

 Association. In 1863 appeared his chief work, the 'Fauna 

 and Flora of the District surrounding Tutbury and Burton- 

 on-Trent,' which formed a considerable part of the ' Natural 

 History of Tutbury, by Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., and 

 Edwin Brown.' In 1865 and 1866 he read papers on 

 Geology before the British Association ; but for some years 

 past his spare time was devoted almost entirely to Coleoptera, 

 of certain sections of which he had formed magnificent 

 collections. Unfortunately his published writings bear but 

 small proportion to his vast store of information. Mr. Brown 

 was a fellow of the Royal Geographical and of the Geological 

 Society. He was born in the year 1818, and died at Tenby, 

 of an apopletic fit, on the 1st September, 1876. 



Death of Mr. Blackmore. — We also have to record the 

 death of Trovey Blackmore, son of the late Charles Philip 

 Blackmore, who died at his residence. The Hollies, Wands- 

 worth, somewhat suddenly, on the 3rd of September, 1876, 

 in his forty-first year. As an entomologist Mr. Blackmore 

 chiefly devoted his attention to Coleoptera. His writings 

 consist of communications upon the Entomology of Algiers 

 — in which country, his constitution being naturally delicate, 

 he generally passed the winter — in the scientific serials of 

 the day. He was also engaged upon a series of articles in 

 the 'Miller,' on "Insects Injurious to Grain." 



