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joint-authors, of what was, as far as it went, a great claegical 

 work. He was the author, also, of many important papers on 

 Histology and Microscopy, some of which have been translated 

 into several languages. His valuable collection has been 

 fortunately acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum. 



Mr. E. T. Atkinson, Accountant-General of Bengal, and 

 President of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, 

 died at Calcutta on Sept. 15th, after a short illness from 

 Bright's disease. He was born at Tipperary on Sept. 6th, 

 1840, and passed into the Indian Civil Service in 1862. 

 He held many important official appointments in India, 

 amongst others that of Financial Secretary to the Indian 

 Government. Between 1874 and 1879 he published a 

 Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces of India, and was 

 also the author of works on Indian Law and kindred subjects. 

 As an entomologist, he published two series of papers on 

 Indian Ehynchota from 1885 to 1890, in the ' Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal,' and a series of Catalogues of the 

 insects of the Oriental Region. One of his latest works was 

 a bulky Catalogue of the Capsida of the world. He also 

 started the ' Indian Museum Notes,' dealing largely with 

 Indian Economic Entomology. 



Dr. E. C. E. Jordan, a frequent contributor to the ' Ento- 

 mologists' Monthly Magazine,' did not confine his studies to 

 British Lepidoptera, but added to our knowledge of the 

 general subject, whenever his short holidays from professional 

 work gave him the opportunity of improving his European 

 collection. 



Mr. W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., and Assistant Secretary of the 

 Geological Society, was formerly one of our Members, and 

 the author of a book entitled ' Elements of Entomology,' 

 published in 1857. 



The names of Dr. L. W. Schaufuss, Dr. S. Nowicki, 

 Oberstlieutenant Max Saalmiiller, Dr. Alfred Walter, Dr. 

 Hermann Dewitz, Mons. Louis Eeiche, Herr Peter Maassen, 

 Mr. C. G. Hall, and Mr. W. B. Farr, are all more or less 

 well-known in the entomological world. 



In conclusion, I have to return to each and every Fellow 

 of this Society, my cordial thanks for the indulgence with 



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