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Godalming, carrying on the business of a wool-stapler, but all the 
while devoting himself to the study of his favourite subject. In 1826 
he removed to Deptford, where he engaged in the business of a rope 
manufacturer. It is said that in his garden there he specially culti- 
vated such flowers as attract many insects, and devoted much time to 
the study of their habits. He was one of the original members of the 
Entomological Club; and when this club started the ‘ Entomological 
Magazine, he was chosen to be its first editor; and for upwards of 
forty years the collection of the club was under his personal care. 
Towards the end of 1840 he became connected with a publishing firm, 
and conducted the business until 1870, during which interval were 
brought out several valuable works on insects and ferns, to the study 
of which plants he had devoted much attention. Amongst other pub- 
lications may be mentioned the ‘ Zoologist, of which no less than 
thirty-three annual volumes were published under Mr. Newman’s 
supervision. 
In 1858 he became the natural history editor of the ‘ Field, 
and continued to fill that post until his death. Amongst his papers 
in this periodical may be specially named those on economic entomo- 
logy, being perhaps the first to point out to agriculturists the true 
way to deal with their insect enemies. Mention may also be made of 
his two valuable works on British Moths and British Butterflies, 
which latter was written by him when in his seventieth year. He 
died on the 12th of June, 1876, at the age of seventy-five, having by 
his many separate works and very numerous original memoirs, and by 
means of the Journals published under his editorship, largely contri- 
buted to advance and disseminate a knowledge of various important 
branches of natural history. He was elected a Fellow of our Society 
in 1840. 
Though Dr. Francis Srpson, F.R.S., was elected a Fellow of the 
Microscopical Society in 1853, his scientific investigations were only 
indirectly connected with microscopical research, and had more special 
reference to general human anatomy and to the practical application of 
remedial measures. He was born in 1815, near Maryport, in Cum- 
berland, and received his medical education in Edinburgh and London. 
For thirteen years he was resident surgeon to the Nottingham Hos- 
pital, after which he removed to London. The subjects to which he 
directed his attention were chiefly more or less closely connected 
with the physiology and pathology of respiration ; but he was also the 
author of a valuable work on medical anatomy. He died suddenly at 
Geneva, on the 7th of September, 1876, aged about sixty, from the 
bursting of an aneurism, when almost in the act of telegraphing to 
say when he would arrive at his residence in London. 
Wuttram Detrertier, born December 23, 1800, died July 15, 1876. 
Joined the Microscopical Society in 1847. For more than twenty-five 
years he was an enthusiastic worker with the microscope, and in- 
terested himself in its optical and mechanical improvement. He 
acquired great skill in the display of difficult objects and in testing 
glasses, and when Messrs. Powell and Lealand contemplated the im- 
provements carried out in their first-class microscope, he entered 
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