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brother, H. W. Bates, F.R.S., lie was especially devoted to the 

 Coleoptera, although his interests wei'e wide and embraced 

 many aspects of natural history, both zoological and botanical 

 He was the author of many papers, chiefly dealing with the 

 Heteromera, in our Transactions and in the " Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine." His exceedingly fine collection of 

 Heteromera is now in the British Museum, while his collection 

 of Bi'itish Coleoptera was a gift to his intimate friend Mr. 

 Horace Donisthorpe. Many friends mom-ri the loss of a keen 

 and able naturalist, a many-sided and genial personality.* 



The Kev. John Hocking Hocking, M.A., J.P., F.E.S., 

 Rector of Copdock-with-Washbrook, near Ipswich, was elected 

 a Fellow in 1896. His death occurred on the 10th of 

 December last, at the age of 69. He was an ardent collector 

 of the Lepidoptera, but having only recently joined the Society 

 was unfortunately known to but few of the Fellows.t 



The Rev. Thomas Ansell Marshall, M.A., F.E.S., joined 

 the Society in 1865. By his death on April 11, 1903, at 

 A jaccio, one of the few authorities upon the parasitic Hymen- 

 optera is lost to science. Mr. Marshall was born at Keswick 

 on Mai"ch 18, 1827, the son of Thomas Marshall, an original 

 member of the Entomological Society. He took a scholarship 

 at Trinity College, Oxford, and passed through the Classical 

 Honours course. With great powers as a linguist, and a student 

 of Hebrew and Sanskrit, he worked for a time on the staff of 

 the British Museum Library. Subsequently he took Holy 

 Orders, and after engaging in scholastic work, held livings in 

 various parts of England, interrupted only by his appoint- 

 ment as Bishop's cha})lain in Antigua. In this island he was 

 bereft of his wife, and was himself in serious danger from an 

 attack of fever. Upon his return to England he was presented, 

 in 1889, to the living of Botus Fleming, Cornwall, which he 

 retained until 1897, when he i-etired to Corsica, and devoted 

 the remainder of his life to his favourite science. T. A. 

 Marshall's earliest important work dealt with the Coleoptera 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1865). The first of the series of memoirs 



* See the Obituary notice in the " Entomologist's Record," vol. xv, No. 

 12, by Horace Donisthorpe; and that iu the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," Nov. 1903, p. 286. 



t See also the Obituary notice in the ' ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine " for Jan. 1904, p. 19. 



