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did good service in his day, and deserves to be remembered 

 as the Danish Coleopterist of his time. 



Sidney Smith Saundeks was born at Wandsworth in June, 

 1809, and very early in life he entered the Consular Department 

 of the Foreign Office ; in 1835 he was appointed British Consul 

 in Albania, was transferred to Alexandria in 1859, and was 

 Consul-General for the Ionian Isles from 1864 to 1870, when he 

 returned home to England. His long and meritorious services 

 earned him the Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and 

 St. George in 1860, and shortly after his retirement he received 

 the honour of knighthood. He was one of the original Members 

 of our Society, President for 1874 and 1875, a Vice-President 

 in 1873 and 1876, and on the 6th February last I had the 

 pleasure of nominating him as one of my Vice-Presidents for 

 1884. He read a paper at that meeting. On the Caprification of 

 Figs, and a second paper at the April meeting. On the Pediculus 

 Melittce of Kirby. Those who were present on that occasion 

 cannot fail to recollect the self-obliviousness and the youthful 

 enthusiasm with which our venerable friend, then in his 

 75th year, read his abstruse and closely-reasoned com- 

 munication ; or to recall the shock with which we learned 

 that, less than a fortnight afterwards, and before the proofs 

 had been corrected. Sir Sidney was no more. He died on the 

 15th April, 1884. 



The following is, I believe, a complete list of Sir Sidney 

 Saunders' published papers : — 



1. Descriptions of some new species of Coleopterous Insects lately 

 received from Monte Video. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. i. 149 (read 

 6th October, 1834). 



2. Account of the attacks of various Insects upon Wine Corks. Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1835, p. Iv. 



3. Description of a Species of Mygale, from Ionia, with its Nest. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. 160. (1842). 



4. Additional Observations on the habits of Mygale. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. iii. 165. (1842). 



5. Description of a new genus of Diptera allied to Stratiomys. Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. 62. (1845). 



6. Descriptions of two new Strejpsipteroiis Insects from Albania, parasitical 

 on Bees of the genus Hylceus, with some account of their habits and 

 metamorphoses. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1850, p. viii ; Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 2 Sei'., i. 43. 



