56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



important a part in checking the ravages of forest insects), in 

 a separate form. He was also a constant contributor to 

 German entomological periodicals. He was one of the few 

 Entomologists who devote themselves, almost exclusively, to 

 a study of the habits and economy of known insects rather 

 than to the description of new ones; and will always be 

 remembered by the Coleopterist for his elaborate researches 

 into the Natural History of the Xylophagous beetles. — A. R. 

 Wallace ; in PresidenVs Address to Entomological Society. 



Death of M. Victor von Motchulsky. — This illustrious 

 entomologist died on the 5th of June, 1871. His position ot 

 colonel in the Russian army led him through the remotest 

 parts of that vast empire. He collected, catalogued, and 

 described an immense number of Coleoptera new to science. 

 He embraced none of the crude hypotheses afloat of late 

 years ; and his laborious works are, therefore, pronounced 

 injurious rather than beneficial. — Edward Newman. 



Death of Mr. Dale. — Mr. J. C. Dale, who may be called 

 the father of British Entomology, died at his seat, Glanville's 

 Wootton, near Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, on Tuesday, the 

 6th of the present month (February), 1872, aged eighty-one 

 years. Throughout his long life he was a most diligent 

 collector of our native insects, and a most methodical 

 recorder of his captures. He commenced a journal in 1808, 

 and continued it without intermission to the last day of his 

 life. This journal is, perhaps, the most continuous entomo- 

 logical diary in existence, and, the last entry being dated 

 February 6, exhibits a remarkable evidence of the " ruling 

 passion strong in death." His contributions to Curtis's beau- 

 tiful ' British Entomology,' and to my own ' Illustrated 

 Natural History of Butterflies,' are familiar to every entomo- 

 logist. In both these works he took unceasing interest ; and 

 there is scarcely a fasciculus of the former, or a species in the 

 latter, but has derived advantage from the knowledge he 

 possessed, and was ever ready to communicate. He was a 

 kind and indulgent parent, and worthily filled the station of a 

 country gentleman and county magistrate. Eight of his own 

 labourers bore the body to its last resting-place, and six of 

 his principal tenants were pall-bearers. The coffin was of 

 oak, grown on his own estate. Mr. Dale was one of the oldest 

 Fellows of the Liunean Society, having been elected in 1818, 

 —Id. 



