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a considerable collection of British parasitic forms of bis own 

 taking : for some years he was Consul-General for the 

 Netherlands (in which post he succeeded bis father), and he 

 was a Knight of the Netherlands Lion. Though pi'actically 

 unknown to the present generation of entomologists he used 

 to be a constant attendant at the meetings of the Society, and 

 he Avas a member of the Council in 1883 and 1884. 



Among foreign entomologists not members of the Society 

 the following deserve mention : — 



Dr. Joseph Kkiechbaumer was appointed Assistant in the 

 Zoological State Museum in Munich as far back as 1859, and 

 in 1898 he became Second Curator; he wrote to a certain 

 extent on Coleoptera and Diptera, but it was on HymenopUra 

 that he was looked up to as an authority, and he was especially 

 attached to the Ichneumonidsc. 



Mr. Homer Franklin Bassett was born at Florida (Mass.) 

 in 1826 : after filling various positions he was appointed 

 Librarian to the Bronson Library in Waterbury (Conn.), a 

 post which he held until 1901. He did much good work at 

 the C'l/mpidx and other gall-flies. 



Dr. Pierre Jules Tosquinet was President of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Belgium : it was apparently late in life 

 when he seriously took up entomology : he devoted himself 

 to the parasitic HymenoiJtera, espec'ally Ichneiimonidic, and 

 acquired a wide knowledge of the group, but he did not 

 publish much : he was a man of considerable importance in 

 Belgium, having been Military Inspector-General for Health, 

 and being at the time of his death President of the Central 

 State Commission for Vaccination : he was an officer of the 

 order of Leopold, and held the Civil Cross of the first class 

 and the Military Cross. 



Professor Adolfo Targioni-Tozzetti was director of the 

 department of invertebrate Zoology in the Museum at 

 Florence : as an entomologist he published several papers on 

 Orthoptera and much useful information on Aphides, Goccidiv, 

 etc. : he also took an active part in the Italian Phylloxera 

 commission. He was one of the founders of the Societa 

 Entomologica Italiana, and many of his pages were published 

 in its BuUetino ; the Society still exists, and, although it has 



