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planned it. This work harassed him much, and, feeling 
unequal to the anxiety of the approaching removal, he 
resigned his appointment in 1880, after thirty-seven 
years’ service. Although, in his official position, he was 
a paleontologist, he never published any works on this 
subject, but devoted himself to the very necessary, 
but unobtrusive, work of arranging the collections 
under his charge, and, when he became Keeper, to the 
superintendence of his department. He was always 
most enthusiastic in the acquisition of interesting new 
forms for the Museum collection, and, out of his family, 
few persons, except those immediately around him, 
knew of the great pains he exercised in considering the 
best way of utilismg the grant at his disposal for the 
purchase of specimens, and the care that he took in 
selecting from collections offered to the Museum. And, 
although it does not appear that the Trustees ever 
refused to purchase any collection which he recom- 
mended, he often manifested great anxiety while waiting 
to know their decision when any important collection 
was before them. 
In 1885 he had a paralytic stroke, from which he 
never entirely recovered, and he died on January 21st, 
1888, in his 78th year. 
With reference to his private life, it is only needful 
to‘mention that in 1834 he married a daughter of 
Mr. G. L. J. Griesbach, of Windsor, and sister of the 
Rev. A. W. Griesbach, whose name appears in the list 
of the first Council of the Entomological Society. He left 
three sons and three daughters. The second daughter 
married the late Mr. E. C. Rye, the well-known author 
of ‘ Rye’s British Beetles,’ in the preparation of which 
work Mr. Rye had the benefit of my father’s advice 
and assistance. 
My father’s collections were at one time extensive, 
although he professed to restrict himself to genera so 
far as the exotic Coleoptera were concerned, except in a 
few groups in which he was particularly interested. 
When he removed from the Museum, on his retirement 
in 1880, he disposed of all these collections, after having 
presented to the Museum all his actual types. His 
collections of British Coleoptera and Hymenoptera 
remain in the possession of his sons. 
Cuas. O. WATERHOUSE. 
