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a second part appearing in 1851 and a third in 1857, the work 

 remaining unfinished at his death. The work which perhaps will 

 remain his chieC title to fame was his ' Monographia Cassididarum,' or 

 Monograph of the Coleopterous family Cassididaj, published in three 

 volumes in I80O, to which he added, some years afterwards, a supple- 

 mentary volume, the whole forming one of the most complete and 

 masterly monographical works that have hitherto been produced on 

 this inexhaustible Order. On his visit to London, in 1853, his un- 

 assuming bearing and great special knowledge acquired for him the 

 esteem of many of our best Entomologists, and he was engaged by 

 Dr. Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum, 

 to compile a Catalogue of the Cassididse, with especial reference to 

 the collection of this particular group in the national establishment. 

 This work, forming one of the well-known duodecimo Catalogues, was 

 published in 1856, Since then he appears not to have undertaken any 

 work of magnitude, if we except the Coleopterous portion of the 

 * Eugenie's Resa,' but he regularly took part in the proceedings at the 

 Meetings of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and communicated 

 several short papers, one of which, on the Coleoptera of South-West 

 Africa, of some interest to the general Coleopterist, was published in 

 the 'Proceedings' of the Academy for 1861. 



Mr. Thomas Desvignes, one of what may be termed the old school 

 of British Entomologists, was chiefly known for his great knowledge 

 of the British Ichneuvnonidae, on which he published several treatises, 

 besides a catalogue of the species, forming part of the series issued by 

 the Authorities of the British Museum. He was one of the original 

 Members of our Society, but of late years was seen but rarely amongst 

 us. He died at Woodford on the 11th of May last. 



Abraham Cooper, Royal Academician, was also one of the few 

 remaining' British Entomologists of the old school, records of whose 

 rare captures appear frequently in the earlier works of Stephens and 

 Curtis. He was probably the oldest of our Entomologists, being in 

 his eighty-second year at his death, which happened last Christmas 

 Eve. Forty years ago he was an ardent collector, and rendered, at 

 that time, good service in assisting the leading Entomologists of the 

 day, by his discoveries of new and rare species. Dendrophilns Cooperi 

 (since ascertained to be D. punctatus of Herbst) was named after him, 

 and he was the first to discover in this country Stilicus fragilis and 

 other remarkable injects. 



Thirty years ago the name of William Edward Shuckard was a 



