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the Society, and next to him Lord Avebury (1850), better 

 known to vis as Sir John Lubbock. 



Dr. W. H. Lowe who has also died during the past year 

 was probably the second oldest surviving Fellow of this 

 Society, as he joined in 1850, but I have seen no biographical 

 notice of him, nor do I know what branch of Entomology he 

 studied. 



William Gabriel Blatch of Knowle near Birmingham, who 

 died on February 25th, was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 1890, but long before that date he had acquired a high local 

 reputation as a successful collector and student of British 

 Coleoptera in the Midlands. In 1S88 he came forward as 

 one of the founders of the Birmingham Entomological Society, 

 a body few in numbers but conspicuously energetic in work, 

 and for the first five years of its existence Mr. Blatch was 

 its President. He was about 60 years old. 



Dr. Walter Battershell Gill died on February 6th, at the age 

 of 77 years. To the present generation of Entomologists he 

 was very little known, but I c;an well remember him in the 

 halcyon days of the Entomological Club, of which extremely 

 limited coterie he was a Member for many years. 



Dr. Otto Staudinger died on October 13th at Lucerne. His 

 name has for a long time been one of the best known of all 

 living Lepidopterists, both from his immense collections and 

 his business transactions in Entomology, and especially from 

 the universally known Catalogue of European Lepidoptera 

 which he published in conjunction with Dr. M. Wocke. I 

 will not deal further with his biography here because Mr. 

 Elwes has done full justice to the subject in a paper which 

 will appear in the next part of our Proceedings. Dr. 

 Staudinger was over 70 years old. I am very glad to notice 

 that the publication of the third edition of his celebrated 

 Catalogue will not be delayed through his death, but that it 

 is announced to appear very soon, 



Pi-ofessor Emile Blanchard, who was for a long time at the 

 head of the Entomologictil Department of the Musee d'Histoire 

 Naturelle at Paris, died during the past year. He wrote on 

 all orders of insects, and although his work may not be con- 

 sidered to be of the highest scientific value, yet he endeavoured 



