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by Avhich liis name will be chiefly known was published in 

 1870, " Ichueumonidum Britannicorum Catalogus," followed 

 bv the valuable monographs on the British Parasitic Hymen- 

 optera, which appeared in the Transactions of this Society 

 between 1872 and 1889. He published an important volume 

 on a portion of the Braconidse in Andre's " Species des 

 Hymenopteres d'Europe," and was still at work on the subject 

 at the time of his death. He was an accomplished draughts- 

 man and a cleai' and admirable wi-iter. The loss of so able 

 a student of an important but much-neglected group will be 

 long and deeply deplored.* 



Philip Brookes Mason, M.R.C.S.,F.L.S., F.E.S., a Fellow 

 of our Society since 1874, died on November 6, 1903, at 

 Burton-on-Trent. His death is a sad loss to his profession, to 

 the neighbourhood in which he laboured, and to a wide circle of 

 naturalist friends. ]Mr. Mason was born at Burton on January 

 2, 1842. After a medical education of unusual distinction 

 and vai'iety of valuable experience, he made his permanent 

 home at his native town in the Midlands. The British fauna 

 and floi'a formed the chief interest of his life, and he possessed 

 magnificent collections of both. "With his sympathetic genial 

 nature, it was his delight to welcome his brother natviralists to 

 share in the Avell-nigh unique advantages which he possessed. 

 And as he was a skilled and honoiu'ed member of the healing 

 profession, so he was ever ready to lend the weight of his 

 influence and the power of his persuasion to promote peace 

 and friendliness. As the Society concerned with the branch of 

 uatvu'al history to which he was chiefly devoted, we recognise, 

 with grief, that a strong influence for good has passed 

 from us.f 



John Sanders Stevens, F.E.S., became a Fellow in 1862. 

 His death at Woking, on July 15, makes a sad break in 

 the ranks of the senior Fellows of the Society. 1 



* Sec also the Obituary notice in the " Entomologist's Monthlv Maga- 

 zine," June 1903, p. 152, bvR. McLachlan, F.R.S. ; aud that in the" "Ento- 

 mologist's Record," vol. xv, No. 7, p. 190, by G. C. Bignell. 



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

 Magazine," Jan. 1904, pp. 17, 18, by the Rev. Canon W. "W. ro\vler ; 

 also "The Lancet" for Xov. 1-3, 1903. 



J See also the Obituary notice in the ' ' Entomologist's Monthly ]\Iaga- 

 zine,"Sept. 1903, p. 229. 



