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entomological dealers, of which the names of Janson (senr.), Higgins, 

 Boucard, and Cutter were very familiar, they had usually fresh con- 

 signments to offer, and were much visited, for there were more 

 collectors of exotic insects in those days than now. 



C. O. Waterhouse was not a prodigious writer, though he 

 published more than 200 separate papers in various scientific journals, 

 etc. His principal contribution to entomological literature is to be 

 found in the enumeration and description of the Coleopterous family 

 Buprestidai in the ' Biologia Centrali-Americana.' He wrote the text 

 to ' Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Coleoptera in the Collection 

 of the British Museum,' Part I, Lycidse (1879), and projected and 

 edited ' Aid to the Identification of Insects,' 2 vols. (1880-82 and 

 1882-90). In non-descriptive and more morphological work he wrote 

 ' The Labium and Submentum in certain Mandibulate Insects ' (1895), 

 in 12 pages with 4 coloured plates, and did much good service in 

 preparing supplements to Scudder's ' Nomenclator Zoologicus.' His 

 writings were always commendably clear from those criticisms and 

 personalities that tend to disfigure some entomological publications. 



During the forty-eight years that I enjoyed the acquaintance of 

 C. O. Waterhouse, he always proved to be a trustworthy and willing 

 advisor in all entomological questions, while he was undoubtedly 

 possessed of very considerable administrative capacity. In private 

 life he had many responsibilities, which he faithfully discharged, and 

 was a man of rectitude and high conception of family duties. From 

 the ordinary, so-called, vices which most of us possess he seemed 

 to be immune, and they troubled him not. He had been a " sides- 

 man " at his church for many years, and had served as President of 

 the Entomological Society of London. W. L, D. 



J. Platt Barrett. 



With great regret we have to record the death, on December 27th, 

 1916, of Mr. J. Platt Barrett, in his 78th year. For over fifty years 

 Mr. Barrett was engaged in the instruction of deaf and dumb 

 children, and his leisure time was largely given to Nature study, 

 the Lepidoptera more especially. He frequently contributed inte- 

 resting notes, based on his own observation and experience in the 

 field, to this Journal and also to other entomological publications. 



Soon after retiring from his professional activities, Mr. Platt Barrett 

 visited Messina, and he was in the midst of the destruction caused 

 by the awful earthquake that occurred there on December 28th, 

 1908. Several records of his butterfly collecting in Sicily and 

 Calabria were published in the ' Proceedings of the South London 

 Entomological Society ' and in the ' Entomologist.' 



In the late sixties Mr. Barrett lived at Peckham, and entomo- 

 logical friends used to meet at his house. It was there, we believe, 

 that the now flourishing Society just adverted to originated. Except 

 during the years he resided at Margate, he was a member of the 

 " South London " up to the time of his death, and was its President 

 in 1877. He was also a Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



