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were carried in tlie earlier volumes, that the author had not 

 reversed the method of his building, and hegun with the 

 Micro-Lepidopteia. 



C. G. Barrett became a Fellow of our Society in 1884. He 

 served on the Council in 1892-3, and again in 1900-01, and 

 vras a Vice-President in 1901. He was President of the South 

 London Entomological Society in 1892, and was an important 

 member of the editorial staff of the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine" from 1880 until his death. 



We deplore the loss of one who was ever ready to help his 

 brother naturalists, one who invariably acted up to the high 

 standard of those words which accurately express the living 

 principle of our Society : — that we " are all members one of 

 another." 



We have also to mourn the loss of two Fellows who have 

 joined our community within recent years : — E. G. J. Sparkb, 

 B.A., elected in 1897, and W. F. Urwick, elected in 1900. 

 Both were well-known collectors of insects, comrades of 

 Fellows, still happily with us, on those delightful occasions 

 when friendships are made and deepened by companionship in 

 the pursuit of a common interest. 



Just as the year came to a close, on December 29, the 

 Entomological world suffered irreparable loss in the death, in 

 his seventy-third year, of one of the most distinguished of the 

 twelve great names which stand at the head of our " List of 

 Fellows," Professor Friedrich Moritz Brauer, of Vienna. 



Brauer's first entomological publication, a revision of the 

 genus Chrysojya, appeared in 1850, and in the course of the 

 next few years he published numerous papers on the biology 

 of the Neuroptera, rapidly rising into the front rank of the 

 European students of that order. 



In 1858 Brauer was attracted by the curious life-history of 

 the Dipterous family, Oestridse, upon which he carried out the 

 most minute and painstaking investigations, culminating in 

 the publication, in 1863, of his classical " Monographic der 

 Oestriden." Even with his great ability the production of 

 such a work would have been impossible had he not been 

 almost entirely free from other pre-occupations. This fortunate 

 i-esult was rendered possible by his position as an Assistant 



