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several times took tempoi'ary charge of important collec- 

 tions ; the rich collection of Baron de Chaudoir was, it is 

 said, in his house during the siege of Paris, in 1871. His 

 Central American collections were purchased hy Messrs. 

 Godman and Salvin, and formed part of the materials for the 

 " Biologia Centrali Americana." Most of his papers were 

 published in the " Anuales de la Soc. Ent. de France," of which 

 Society he was elected a Member in 1852. He joined the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1875. Salle was ex- 

 tremely genial and courteous in his manners. 



Akthur Dowsett, F.Z.S., FE.S., died at Reading, on 

 the Gth November last. He was formerly in business in 

 Brighton as a dispensing chemist, and on retirement from 

 business went to reside at Heading. He was one of the 

 founders of the Reading Natural History Society, and had 

 occupied the position of President of the Society since 1884. 

 Mr. Dowsett possessed large collections of birds and insects. 

 Beyond a few notes in the "Proceedings of the Brighton 

 and Sussex Natural History Society," and in the " Entomo- 

 logist," I am not aware that he published anything on the 

 subject of entomology. He joined the Entomological Society 

 in 1874, and the Zoological Society in 1876. 



Amongst the names of other entomologists, not Fellows of 

 the Society, who have died during the year, the following 

 deserve mention : — 



Julius Flohr. — This well-known Coleopterist died in 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, on February 8th, after a few weeks' 

 illness. He was born at Hamburgh in 1837. He was 

 educated in his native city, and from his boyhood took 

 an interest in Coleoptera. After several years' residence 

 in England he went to Mexico in 1859, and entered a 

 banking-house in which he subsequently became a partner. 

 In 1877 he retired from business, and from that period 

 to the time of his death he devoted his attention to the 

 investigation of the Coleopterous fauna of Mexico. To him 

 we are largely indebted for a knowledge of the Coleoptera of 

 that country. He was always ready to assist the contributors 

 to the "Biologia Centrali Americana" by working up 

 neglected groups. From time to time he visited England, 



