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was best known as an entomologist by his share in the insect 

 portion of Griffiths' translation of Cuvier's ' Regne Animal,' by his 

 Monograph of the Phasmidse, and his quarto work on the insects 

 of that family inhabiting Australia, and by a beautifully ilkistrated 

 Catalogue of the Genus Papilio, published by the Trustees of the 

 British Museum. He was essentially skilful in Catalogue -making, 

 and thoroughly understood the mode of treating synonyms. He 

 was a man of genial manners ; and I recall to mind an interesting 

 visit which we made to Paris in 1832, when we had the pleasure 

 of becoming personally acquainted with Cuvier, Latreille and 

 Audouin. He was born on the 8th of July, 1808, and died on the 

 6th of May, 1872. 



James Charles Dale, M.A., F.L.S., who died on the 6th of 

 February last, at the age of eighty years, was one of the most 

 indefatigable collectors of English insects, upon which his pub- 

 lished notes are very numerous, although short, and confined to 

 dates of captures, localities, &c. His collections were used to a 

 very great extent by Mr. Curtis. 



Charles Home, Esq., died on the 21st of March last, in his 

 forty-eighth year, having passed many years of his life in India, 

 where he carefully observed the habits of many species of insects, 

 especially Hymenoptera, upon which he published a beautifully 

 illustrated memoir in the ' Transactions of the Zoological Society 

 of London.' 



Robert Smith Edleston died on the 31st of October last, aged 

 fifty-three years. He had devoted the leisure of many years to 

 his collection of British Lepidoptera, and had latterly paid some 

 attention to British Coleoptera. 



Of our Foreign Honorary Members we have lost Fran9ois Jules 

 Pictet (de la Rive), who died on the 15th of March, 1872, in his 

 sixty-third year, having been born on the 27th of September, 1809. 

 His entomological productions are almost entirely confined to the 

 Neuroptera, his Monographs on the Phryganeidre, Perlidse and 

 Epheraeridse being of the highest importance. For many years 

 past his attention had been devoted to Paleontology. The 

 list of his memoirs occupies ten octavo images in the excellent 

 memoir of him published by M. Soret, illustrated by an 

 admirable photograph recalling his genial features, with which 

 we were made acquainted during his several visits to this 

 country. 



