REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM HOPE. Xxi 
Mr. Kirby, for his admirable Bridgewater Essay. Many have readily acknowledged the 
services Mr. Hope had rendered to them. Mr. Yarrell takes special notice of the assistance 
he had received in his works on British Birds and Fishes ; Mr. Stephens on Lnglish Insects ; 
Dr. Royle in his work on the Himalayas ; in the remarks on the Entomo-geography of India, 
and others at home and abroad. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Linnean, 
took a warm part in the establishment of the Zoological Society [1826], and was elected 
President of the Entomological Society [1835]. Many foreign academies and societies en- 
rolled his name in their lists, and we have had the honour of his name from the commence- 
ment of our labours. I look back with pride at having introduced him into our Association ; 
and for a short time he was a member of our Council. Had his health permitted of a con- 
tinued residence in England, we should doubtless have benefited much from his exertions. 
We had, however, the great satisfaction of seeing him at our Congress at Shrewsbury, and 
he was present on occasion of our visit to Uriconium. I had the pleasure of passing a week 
with him, after that Congress, at the seat of his brother, Mr. Hope-Edwardes, at Netley in 
Shropshire; and it is with much gratification we find that gentleman’s name in the list of 
our Associates. 
The state of his health rendered a residence abroad absolutely necessary to him ; but 
he followed up with unabated assiduity his attention to natural history. Nice, the climate 
of which appeared to be congenial to his frame, offered him abundant opportunities of col- 
lecting fish and crustacea to add to his collections. At Naples, in 1851, he printed a 
Catalogue dei Crostacei Italiani e di molti altri del Mediterraneo, which is highly im- 
portant in regard to the identification of species and the establishment of their habitats. 
Many of these are for the first time recorded and named. He also published in Italian 
Descrizione di aleune Specie d’ Insetti Fossil’, in a memoir presented to the Academy degli 
Aspiranti Naturalisti in 1847. 
Mr. Hope’s zeal sustained him to the last; but nature was exhausted, and on the 15th 
of April, 1862, at the age of sixty-five years, he expired. To a naturally weak system, I 
fear his subsequent ill state of health to have been much produced by his energetic tem- 
perament, his eagerness in the pursuit of knowledge, and particularly in his researches in 
Holland, where he was attacked with ague in a virulent form. From that time I sensibly 
observed his failure: he also, in making collections at Nice, met with an accident, fell into 
the water, and barely escaped with life. All told now heavily upon him, yet his desire to 
improve and add to his collections was constant; and, when unable any longer to move 
about, he was to be found examining catalogues and sending commissions to sales, to render 
complete those vast accumulations which will serve to hand down his name to posterity 
with honour and approbation. 
