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a more liberal policy may soon be adopted by the "ruling 

 powers." 



Obituary. 



"We have to lament the loss by death of four of our members — 

 Edward Newman, Edwin Brown, Trovey Blackmore, and Jacob 

 Birt. Of these Edward Newman stands in the foremost rank, as 

 one of the few of the foundation members which time had spared 

 to us. 



Edward Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &:c., was born on the 13th 

 of Ma}', 1801, and died on the 12tli of June, 1876. From a 

 biographical notice published as a preface, or rather postscript, 

 to the last volume of ' The Zoologist,' it appears that from his 

 earliest childhood he was devoted to tlie observation of natural 

 objects, especially plants, birds, and butterflies. This general 

 love of Nature was seen throughout all his future long and most 

 active life, and resulted in the publication of his works on ferns, 

 the ' Dictionary of British Birds ' (a re-issue of Montagu, Avitli 

 additions from Selby, Yarrell, &c.), ' Birds-nesting,' the ' Illus- 

 trated Natural History of Britsh Moths ' and its companion 

 volume of British Butterflies, the ' Letters of Rusticus,' but more 

 especially in his establishing, editing, or extensivel}'' contributing 

 to various miscellaneous works on Natural History, as the ' Zoolo- 

 gist,' the * Entomological Magazine,' the ' Entomologist,' the 

 ' Phytologist,' the ' Field,' the 'Young England,' the 'Friend,' Sec, 

 in all of which great numbers of his articles are to be found. Of 

 entomological works his ' Sphinx Vespiformis ' was an ingenious 

 parody on MacLeay's ' Hor£e Entomologise,' in which he futilely 

 attempted to arrange natural objects, even down to genera, in a 

 se^Jtenary system, and which he endeavoured further to develop 

 in some of his papers in the ' Entomological Magazine ' : his 

 ' Grammar of Entomology ' was, as it has been termed in the 

 'Zoologist,' " a most useful little work;" his 'Insect Hunters' 

 was a clever paraphrase of the last-named work in Hiawatlii 

 verse, and, thanks to the very excellent wood engravings, his 

 * British Butterflies ' and ' British Moths ' are of lasting value, 

 although the title of the last-mentioned work is deceptive, as the 

 extensive families of Pyralidfe, Tortricidaj, Tineidse, and Aluci- 

 tidie are omitted, and although the work does not contain a single 

 figure of the preparatory states of any of the species. From the 



