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was a genuine lover of Nature in a wide extent, and was espe- 
cially attached to tlie investigation of the habits of insects. 
I recollect on one of his visits to England he came to Oxford at 
a time when I happened to be absent for several hours ; and on 
my return, I found that, instead of rambling over our fine old 
colleges and other academical establishments, he had taken a walk 
into the adjoining lanes, and had found some galls and mined 
leaves which greatl}- interested him. 
Robert M'' Andrew, F.R.S., died on the 22nd of June last, 
at the age of seventy-two j'ears. Although especially devoted to 
Conchology, he had extensively collected the Crustacea during 
his various dredging expeditions. 
Albany Hancock, who died on the 26tli of October last, was 
also much attached to the British Crustacea, although his 
admirable researches were chiefly confined to other invertebrate 
groups. 
We have also to regret the deaths of Dr. Louis J. R. Agassiz and 
Mr. Edward Blyth, both naturalists of distinguished eminence, but 
not especially entomologists, although the latter gentleman, pre- 
vious to his residence in India, had made insects a portion of his 
general zoological studies. From the 'Athenaeum' of Saturday 
last (January 2J:th) we learn that a few days before his death 
Prof. Agassiz completed a paper " On Evolution and Permanence 
of Type." This has been printed in the ' American Monthly,' 
and is well deserving attention : the author's views with regard to 
the Evolution hypothesis being well known, as especially stated 
in his 'Methods of Study in Natural History;' his 'Nomenclator 
Zoologicus,' and his bibliographical work published by the Ray 
Society, have been of great service to entomologists. 
With great regret, we learn from this evening's newspapers 
that apparently reliable intelligence has been received of the death 
of Dr. Livingstone. The observations on Natural History, espe- 
cially on the venomous Tsetse fly, pubhshed in his ' Missionary 
Travels in South Africa,' sufficiently show the interest which he 
took in Entomology, as do also several interesting insects which 
he liad collected (including the singular Phyllomorpha Living- 
stonii, described by me in our Transactions), and which are now 
preserved in the Oxford Museum, to which he iiresented them 
during his visit to Dr. Daubeny (shortly before his departure to 
Africa), on which occasion he especially requested me to inform 
