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Dunning, and Edward Yerbury Watson. Beyond the limits 
of the Society, it is with deep regret that we record the deaths 
of George H. Horn, Andrew Matthews, and Alois Friedrich 
Rogenhofer—men of distinction among eight entomologists 
of note who have passed away. With Mr. Dunning, our 
lamented colleague and President, I was well acquainted for 
many years, and I would add my testimony to his great 
ability, high personal character, and unequalled devotion to 
the interests of the Society. 
Dr. Fritz Miuuer, Hon. F.E.S. This great naturalist, 
the correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin, was born 
on March 31, 1822, at Windisch-Holzhausen, in Thuringia. 
He was sent to school at Erfurt, and afterwards betook him- 
self to the study of pharmacy, but abandoned it to become 
a pupil of Johannes Miller, the comparative anatomist, at 
Berlin. After taking his doctor’s degree, he settled at 
Erfurt as a science teacher, an occupation which he tem- 
porarily relinquished for the study of medicine. 
In 1852 political reasons caused him to emigrate to South 
Brazil, where, chiefly at Blumenau and on the island of 
Desterro, the remainder of his life was spent, partly as a 
farmer, partly as a teacher, always as an earnest student of 
nature. His zoological investigations, begun in Germany 
but interrupted by his emigration, were resumed at Desterro 
in 1857, from which date he published papers in rapid 
succession, chiefly in ‘* Wiegmann’s Archiv,” on subjects of 
marine zoology, celenterates, annelids, and especially the 
transformations of Crustacea. These brought him into 
notice as a thorough and acute zoologist; but his real 
reputation dates from the publication of the ‘ Origin of 
Species.” 
His own studies on the structure and habits of animals 
caused him enthusiastically to accept Darwin’s great theory, 
and to support it by the unrivalled series of zoological and 
botanical observations contained in his numerous later 
writings. In 1865, he published ‘“ Fir Darwin,” a sketch 
of Crustacean development and phylogeny from the Dar- 
winian standpoint, and his only work in book-form ; its 
publication led to a regular correspondence with Darwin, 
