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From 1840 to 1847 he was a Member of the Koyal Council, and 

 performed the functions of Chancellor of the Exchequer and 

 afterwards of Home Secretary. In 1847 he was appointed 

 Governor of the province of Gothenburg ; in 1864 he returned 

 to Stockholm, and sat in the First Chamber as Member for 

 Gothenburg ; for several years he was Deputy Speaker of the 

 House, and not until 1878 did he retire from public life. 

 Combining practical statesmanship with a love of Natural 

 History, and especially of Entomology, he was associated with 

 Schonherr (1837-42), describing no less than 480 new species in 

 the ' Genera et Species Curculionidum,' and with Boheman 

 (1851-57) in the preparation of the " Insecta Caffraria annis 

 1838-45 a J. A. Wahlberg collecta," describing the Buprestidce, 

 Lycidce, Histeridce, and a considerable portion of the Scarahceidce. 

 Between 1870 and 1872 he also published in the Transactions of 

 the Stockholm Academy of Sciences five separate papers, entitled 

 " Coleoptera Caffrariee a J. A. Wahlberg collecta." Elected a 

 member of that Academy in 1840, he was its President in 1847, 

 and in 1879 he was chosen an Honorary Member of the 

 Entomological Society of Stockholm. 



Another veteran Coleopterist, Auguste Chevrolat, has 

 lately been removed. He was one of the foundation Members 

 and for the last ten years an Honorary Member of the 

 Entomological Society of France ; and from 1831 to his death 

 he has been a constant writer in the ' Annales ' and other 

 entomological periodicals, the whole of his communications 

 relating to Coleoptera, to the study of which Order of Insects 

 he exclusively devoted his attention. The first volume of our 

 Transactions (1836) contains his " Description d'un nouveau 

 Genre de Gurculionites " (read 7th July, 1834), and another 

 paper from his pen will be found in the first volume of the 

 Journal of Entomology (1862). M. Chevrolat was for many 

 years engaged at the Administration de I'Octroi, but it is 

 more than a quarter of a century since he retired from his 

 official duties. He lived all his life in Paris, and died there on 

 the 16th December, 1884, in the 86th year of his age. 



Our annual volume of Transactions contains twenty-five 

 memoirs, of which, if I were at liberty to make a selection, 

 several might be mentioned as of more than ordinary interest 



