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collection of the Coleopterous Insects of Madeira, 1857; 

 that of the 'Coleopterous Insects of" the Canaries,' 1864; the 

 ' Coleoptera Atlantiduni' (enumerating thosf; of the Madeiras, 

 Salvages, and Canaries), 1865; and the 'Coleoptera Hes- 

 peridura,' 1867 (enumerating those of the Cape Verde 

 Archipelago). His collections and types being purchased 

 for the National Collection, his works on the Coleoptera of 

 Madeira and the Canaries were published as British Museum 

 Catalogues. His volume on the 'Variation of Species,' dedi- 

 cated to Mr. Charles Darwin, and published in 1856, is well 

 known. His shorter papers of original research and critical 

 disquisition — contributed to our own, and in some cases 

 foreign, scientific journals — range over a period of more than 

 thirty years, beginning with Notes in the ' Zoologist,' on the 

 Coleoptera of the South of Ireland, of South Wales, of 

 some districts of the West of England, and of the South of 

 Dorsetshire. Many papers — relative to the " Coleoptera of 

 the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, and Madeira;" on the 

 "Atlantic Cossonides" (to which he especially directed his 

 attention) ; on " Some of the Coleoptera from the Cape of 

 Good Hope;" with others on "Structural Peculiarities," 

 "Variation of Species," "Revisions and Notes of Diagnostic 

 Characters;" showing the unwearied research of their author 

 — followed in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 

 and other serials; till the long record of skilful labour ceased 

 with his paper on the " Sphenophorus slrialus," the recently 

 arrived Banana weevil of Madeira, forming a contribution to 

 the Economic branch of Entomology, of which he watched 

 the progress with deep interest. In the autumn of 1875, 

 feeling it desirable to seek a warmer climate, he devoted 

 himself to utilizing his time to the utmost in scientific 

 research, and every assistance to investigation being furnished 

 him in St. Helena, through the assistance of Lord Carnarvon, 

 the governor's residence ("Plantation House"), within an 

 hour's ride of the grand central ridge, still clothed with the 

 aboriginal vegetation, was placed at his disposal; and he 

 devoted himself assiduously to his work, in the companionship 

 of his accomplished wile, herself a skilful lepidopterist, and 

 his old friend and previous companion Mr. John Gray. His 

 wife, to whom he was married on the 12th of January, 1869, 

 and who entered most heartily into all his pursuits as a 

 naturalist, was a daughter of Joseph Shepherd, Esq., of 

 Teignmouth. Of this work we have the record in the 

 'Coleoptera Saucta;-Helena3,' which may well be taken for a 



