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lated a large collection, which was sold to the British Museum 
not long before his death. Though I had not the pleasure of 
knowing him personally, I believe that he was an extremely 
amiable and sociable man, and though not perhaps in the 
highest rank as regards his scientific attainments, was a true 
naturalist, and a most industrious worker. 
Professor Woop-Mason, who was formerly a Fellow of 
our Society, died at sea on his return from India, on May 
6th, at the age of forty-seven. He had for the last fifteen 
years or more been employed at the Calcutta Museum, first 
as assistant, and latterly as director, in which capacity 
he succeeded Dr. Anderson. He was one of the late Professor 
Westwood's most distinguished pupils, and always spoke of 
him as the greatest entomologist of his time. Prof. Wood- 
Mason at one time was an active worker, and paid special 
attention to the Mantide and Phasmide, on which he published 
several important papers in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal. He also, in conjunction with Mr. de Nicéville, 
worked out and wrote papers on several collections of 
Rhopalocera made by himself and others in Assam, the 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Of late years, owing no 
doubt to failing health and the heavy duties of his position 
in charge of the Calcutta Museum, and as one of the secre- 
taries of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he had not published 
much, 
Artuur Horner, M.R.C.S., died suddenly at Tonbridge, 
where he was in practice as a surgeon, on Aug. 3rd. He 
had long been known as a British coleopterist, and was 
surgeon to the ‘Pandora’ during a voyage to the Arctic 
Regions in 1875-76. He had been a Fellow of our Society 
since 1886. 
The Rev. Henry Burney, M.A., died on July 16th, in his 
eightieth year, at Wavendon, Bucks. He was well known as 
a student of British Lepidoptera, of which he had a fine 
collection, which was recently disposed of by auction, and 
realised a very high price, showing that the mania for authentic 
British specimens is as strong as ever. 
Mr. Joun Cuartes Bowrine, F.L.S., died on June 20th, 
aged seventy-two years. He was an ardent entomologist, 
