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During the past year Death has not deprived us of many of 

 our colleagues ; but if he has been lenient in point of number, of 

 the three whose loss we have to deplore one was an Honorary 

 Member, and another was a Past-President and actual Vice- 

 President at the time of his decease. 



JoRGEN Christian Schiodte was born in Copenhagen on the 

 20th April, 1815, and died there on the 22nd April, 1884. His 

 * Genera og Species af Danmark's Eleutherata ' was published 

 when he was only twenty-six years of age, and in the following 

 year he was appointed Director of the Entomological Department 

 of the Museum at Copenhagen, a post which he filled down 

 to the time of his death. In 1854 the title of Professor was 

 conferred upon him. From 1836 he has been a continuous 

 contributor to many scientific publications on the Continent, 

 the bulk of his contributions relating to the order Coleoptera. 

 For upwards of twenty years he edited the ' Naturhistorisk 

 Tidsskrift,' and published in it the series of beautifully- 

 illustrated papers on the transformations of Coleoptera, 

 which may be said to constitute his most notable work. His 

 Specimen Fauncs Suhterranece, originally appearing in the 

 Transactions of the Koyal Danish Society of Science (1849), 

 was, at the request of Mr. Spence, translated into English by 

 Dr. Wallich, and the translation, with some additional remarks 

 by the author himself, was published in our own Transactions 

 (1851). In the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 101, is a short paper by 

 Schiodte " On some Staphylinidce found in the nests of Termites,'' 

 at the end of which it is stated that ** this paper will be printed 

 in full, illustrated with plates from the Author's drawings, in the 

 Transactions of the Society." I cannot find that this intention 

 was ever carried into effect, but a paper on the same subject, 

 " Corotoca og Spirachtha, Staphyliner som fdde levende Unger og 

 ere Husdyr hos en Termit," was published in the Danish 

 Transactions in 1856. It was in 1870 that Schiodte was 

 chosen one of our Honorary Members, and four years later a 

 similar honour was bestowed upon him by the Entomological 

 Society of France. His meritorious career has now closed ; 

 and though, perhaps, his reputation may decrease even in the 

 short perspective of a generation or two, his countrymen are 

 justified in regarding him as the worthiest successor of Fabricius 

 whom Denmark has yet produced ; all must admit that he 



