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future investigations. The different sections have heen edited by 

 experts, so that we may look uj)on the lists as authentic copies 

 from the original works of the Russian students. 



The body of the work treats upon a large number of 

 subjects, as will be gathered from the general index, which 

 contains some 5000 entries. These are most diverse, and 

 include Meteorology, Education, Crime, Disease, Botany, Silk- 

 cultm'e, Bee-keeping, &c. 



We can fully recommend this work as one which will add 

 much to our knowledge of a little-known portion of the world 

 that ought to be studied by all Englishmen interested in the 

 foreign relations with British possessions. 



OBITUARY. 



Nicholas Cooke. — We much regret to have to record the 

 sudden death of Nicholas Cooke, of Gorsey Hey, Liscard, 

 Cheshire. Mr. Cooke was born at Liverpool, 14th of January, 

 1818, and died on May 19th, 1885, at the residence of Mr. Briggs 

 at Leatherhead, where he had gone to spend the evening, in 

 company with Messrs. Howard Vaughan and Carrington. 

 Mr. Cooke was a member of a well-known family, members of 

 the Society of Friends, his father having founded one of the 

 oldest firms of cotton-brokers in Liverpool. The subject of this 

 notice had for many years been connected with a house of wool- 

 brokers. The taste for Entomology appeared to have been born 

 in the family, for when quite children he and his brother, the 

 late Benjamin Cooke, long before they had heard of Entomology 

 as a science, caught butterflies, moths, and other insects, and 

 pasted them in large numbers on the walls of their nursery. 

 This taste was fostered and organized on their becoming students 

 at the Friends' School at York, where at the same time were 

 other scholars with a like taste, who afterwards became eminent 

 entomologists, among them being Edwin Birchall and Thomas 

 Allis. Nicholas Cooke seldom published anything on Entomology 

 except in the briefest terms. This is greatly to be regretted, as 

 with him dies an immense fund of information. As a collector 

 he was most successful, and his name must always be associated 



