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index, and found it to consist as a rule of long lists of newly- 

 described Lepidoptera, with, occasionally, a certain amount of 

 Hymenoptera and Coleoptei'a thrown in. The present general 

 interest in most of the less worked orders augurs well for the 

 future of Entomology in this country. 



Our obituary is again a small one. 



Professor Carlos Berg joined the Society in 1886 : he 

 was Director of the National Museum at Buenos Ayres : at 

 first he held a subordinate position, but in 1892 he succeeded 

 Burmeister as Directoi-. His studies embraced nearly the 

 whole of the Insecta, and he has given us much that is 

 interesting concerning the entomology of Patagonia, Chili, 

 Tierra del Fuego, etc. : he was a native of the Russian Baltic 

 Provinces, and was formerly Librarian at Riga. 



Mr. John Edward Fletcher joined the Society in 1865 

 and resigned his membership in 1901 : he was a strong 

 example of the amount of valuable knowledge of nature that 

 can be amassed by a self-taught working man : he was born 

 near Worcester, and lived in or near that city for the whole 

 of his life, following the occupation of a working glover : his 

 additions to the British lists were very nunieious, and there 

 is scarcely an order in which he did not make discoveries : 

 one of his chief characteristics was the accuracy of his deter- 

 minations : his local collections are very full, and we are glad 

 to hear that they are likely to be acquired by his native city, 

 to which they will be of the greatest value. 



Mr. Charles Marcus Wakefield was the only son of Mr. 

 D. Bell Wakefield, Judge of the Supreme Court in New 

 Zealand : he was educated in England, and afterwards held 

 an official appointment in New Zealand, but retired owiug 

 to bad health, and came back to England, where he bought 

 an estate at Uxbridge, at which place he lived until his 

 death : in New Zealand he collected a large number of insects, 

 which were worked out by specialists, to whom he liberally 

 presented them : he was elected a Fellow of the Society in 

 1876. 



]\1k. John Willlvm May was one of the oldest members of 

 the Society, having been elected in 186U : he chiefly studied 

 Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, and in the latter order he had 



