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SrepHEN Barton, F.E.S., who died on November 17th, 
1898, aged 78 years, was one of the oldest Fellows of this 
Society, which he joined in 1865. He visited Australia in 
1852, where he made extensive collections of Coleoptera, 
including many new species, which were described on his 
return to England by his friend, Henry Walter Bates and 
other authors. It was proposed that Barton should join 
Bates on the Amazons; but the arrangement came to nothing, 
and Barton settled in Bristol, where he formed large collec- 
tions of insects, chiefly Coleoptera. He was for thirty years 
President of the Entomological Section of the Bristol Natu- 
ralists’ Society. He never contributed to the publications of 
this Society, and though an excellent entomologist, his name 
is probably little known to the present generation of Fellows, 
except those who reside in the West of England. 
The deaths of the following distinguished entomologists, not 
Fellows of this Society, have been recorded since the last pre- 
ceding Annual Meeting :— 
James 'THomson, an American by birth, who passed most of 
his life in Paris, formed a large and valuable collection of the 
more striking Coleoptera. He published numerous papers on 
the insects of his collection, chiefly on Longicornia, from 1856 
onwards in the “Annales ”’ of the French Entomological Society 
and other periodicals, and his name must be very familiar 
to any one who has occasion to consult French monographic 
works on Coleoptera, published between 1860 and 1880. 
Some years ago he parted with his collections to M. René 
Oberthiir, and since that time his interest in entomology 
largely ceased. He was a member of this Society from 1856 
to 1888. It should not be forgotten that he married a sister 
of Charles Stewart Parnell. 
Wix.iaAm Mites MAsKELL, late Registrar of the University 
of New Zealand, was born in Hampshire, and, after serving 
for a short time in the Army, went to New Zealand in 1860. 
His earlier scientific work was done in connexion with micro- 
scopy, but he afterwards devoted himself to the study of 
Aleurodide, ‘Psyllide, and especially Coccide, on the New 
Zealand species of which he was the one established authority, 
though he subsequently investigated Australian and Asiatic 
