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chiefly to Coleoptera, of which he formed an extensive col- 

 lection of British species, and was the discoverer of Macro- 

 ni/chus quadrituherculatus and other species in this country. 

 He was one of the founders of the Burton-on-Trent Natural 

 History and Archaeological Society, and one of its earlier 

 Presidents. He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1886. 



We have also to regret the loss by death of Edward Henry 

 BuRNELL, who joined our Society in 1855 ; and of Sidney 

 Philip Smith, who joined in 1885. 



Of entomologists, not Fellows of our Society, who have died 

 during the past year, I may mention the following : — Henry 

 Whitely, Jun., well known for many years as a traveller and 

 collector, died in British Guiana on the 1 1th of July last. He 

 was horn at Woolwich on the 18th of June, 1844, and started 

 on his first expedition to Japan in 1804. Here he spent a short 

 time, and then proceeded to Peru, where he remained in the 

 mountainous parts of the southern portion of that country for 

 a considerable period. He left Peru by way of the Amazons, 

 and after spending some time at Iquitos he proceeded to Para, 

 and thence to England. His next expedition was to British 

 Guiana, over a considerable portion of which country he 

 travelled, penetrating as far as the precipitous sides of 

 Eoraima. Though chiefly occupied in collecting birds, a 

 pursuit which he followed with unflagging industry and 

 success, he also made several large and interesting collections 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera. Mr. Whitely's series of butterflies 

 from Peru was described by Mr. Herbert Druce in the 

 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London' for 1876, 

 where it formed an important part of his List of the Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera of that country. 



Amongst British entomological collectors who were not 

 Fellows of our Society, I may mention the names of Mr. 

 George Haggar, of Hastings, and Mr. Francis Archer, of 

 Liverpool, both of whom did good work in their special studies. 



Of our co-workers abroad, we have lost M. I'Abbe Leon 

 Provancher, a French Canadian, who died at Cap Rouge, 

 Quebec, in April last, in his seventy-second year. He was 

 Editor of the ' Naturaliste Canadien,' and author of the 

 ' Petite Faune Entomologique du Canada.' He chiefly de- 

 voted his attention to the Ichneumonida;. 



