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tended to the abandonment of artificial systems and to the 

 discovery of arrangements which express the true genetic 

 relations of forms." 



Our science will be best served when workers in its various 

 branches regard one another as contributors, each in his 

 special department for the welfare of the whole, not urging 

 the superior claims of one subject in preference to another, 

 but as mutually resting on one another, and no one being 

 complete in itself. This is the teaching of Bates's life which 

 may be profitably followed by us all. 



Howard W. J. Vaughan, who died on the 18th of October 

 last at the early age of forty-six, was born at Hackney on the 

 18th of April, 1846. By profession a solicitor, a keen lepi- 

 dopterist and a frequent contributor to entomological 

 literature, and for a time Editor of the entomological 

 column of the journal known as 'Young England.' For 

 a long time he specially interested himself in the PkyciiUc 

 and Tortriciila, but subsequently he devoted his attention to 

 varieties of British Lepidoptera generally, of which he amassed 

 a very large collection, which was broken up in 1890. He 

 joined our Society in 1869. 



Harry Berkeley James, who died on the 2-2ud of July last, 

 was born on the 9th of March, 1846, and resided for many 

 years on the west coast of South America, both in Chili and 

 Peru. His chief pursuit in those countries was Ornithology, 

 and he made a very complete collection of Chilian birds, 

 including those of the districts which formerly belonged to 

 Southern Peru. At the time of his death he was engaged 

 with Mr. Sclater in the preparation of a work on the birds of 

 Chili. During his sojourn in South America he also collected 

 specimens of several orders of insects, especially during a 

 journey to Chanchamayo, on the eastern side of the Cordillera. 

 I am not aware, however, that he ever published any account 

 of his entomological captures. Mr. James was elected a 

 Fellow of our Society in 1885. 



John Thomas Harris, who died at Burton-on-Trent on the 

 3rd of October last, at the age of sixty-two, was a banker by 

 profession, but a keen naturalist. In his earlier days Botany 

 was his chief pursuit. He subsequently devoted himself 



