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Dr. Cakl August Uohrn, who died on the 4th of May last, 

 at Stettin, in the 86th year of his age, was born on the 27th of 

 June, 1806. He was elected a Member of our Society in 

 1855, and iin Honorary Fellow in 1885. On the death of 

 Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, the first President of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Stettin, which had been founded in 

 1839, Dr. Dohrn, who was then acting as secretary, was 

 selected for the vacant post, and duly elected on the 5th of 

 November, 1843, President of the Society, a post he held 

 until his retirement in 1887, when he was succeeded by his 

 eldest son, Dr. Heinrich Dohrn. Dr. Anton Dohrn, his 

 youngest son, is well known to zoologists as the founder 

 of the Zoological Station at Naples. 



Under Dr. Dohrn's presidency the Entomological Society 

 of Stettin flourished, and its 'Zeitung,' which has been 

 issued with unfailing regularity, now extending to fifty-three 

 volumes, is one of the leading entomological periodicals 

 of the day, and is full of important memoirs, many of them 

 written by Dohrn himself. Though sympathizing with en- 

 tomologists of all branches of the science, Dohrn's work was 

 restricted to the study of certain families of Coleoptera, the 

 Paussidm being a group of special interest to him. 



Besides being eminent as an entomologist, Dohrn was an 

 excellent linguist and musician, and a man of great intel- 

 lectual acquirements. 



Sir iiiCHARD Owen, K.C.B., F.E.S., whose death took place 

 so recently, at the advanced age of 88, was born at Lancaster 

 on the 20th of July, 1804, and died at his residence (Sheen 

 Lodge, Kichmond Park) on the 18th of December, 1892. He 

 joined our Society as a Member more than fifty years ago, 

 having been elected in 1841. Though so eminently distin- 

 guished for his writings, chiefly on Vertebrate Zoology, I am 

 not aware that he paid any special attention to Entomology. 

 One important Memoir, however, connected with the subject, 

 especially relating to Aphidae, was published by him in 1849, 

 entitled " On Parthenogenesis, or the successive production of 

 Procreating Individuals from a single ovum." 



Henry Tiubats Stainton, F.R.S., who died at Lewisham on 

 the 2nd of December last, in his 71st year, was born on the 



