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ninety-first year. As a young man he obtained a situation in 

 the Customs House, where he rose to a high position, retiring 

 at the age of seventy after more than fifty years' service. His 

 first entomological paper was published in the " Entomological 

 Magazine" for 1837. In 1874 he became one of the joint 

 editors of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, retaining 

 that position for thirty years. Associated with the leading 

 English entomologists of his day, including Stainton, whose 

 residence was near his own, he extended his studies from the 

 Lepidoptera, with which he began, to the Coleoptera and other 

 orders, rendering important assistance in the production of 

 Stainton's "Natural History of the Tineina " in 1856, and 

 in 1865 he was one of the joint authors of Douglas and Scott's 

 " British Hemiptera." His works on the Coccidae are very 

 valuable. During his long life he did much to promote the 

 knowledge of our favourite science, and always held a high 

 position in the esteem and affection of his friends. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Howard Loyd Irby died last 

 April at the age of sixty-nine. A Fellow of the Linnean and 

 Zoological Societies, he joined this Society in 1893. Retir- 

 ing after service through the Crimean War and the Indian 

 Mutiny, he devoted himself to several branches of natural 

 history, especially ornithology, on which he published a work, 

 "The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar," that went 

 through several editions. He was an enthusiastic collector 

 of Lepidoptera, a first-rate shot, and his friends found him a 

 most charming and genial companion. 



Alexander Fry, bora in 1821, went in 1838 to Rio de 

 Janeiro, where his father had a mercantile house. There he 

 devoted much time to collecting Coleoptera. After 1854, 

 barring occasional visits to Rio, he resided in England, adding 

 by purchase and otherwise to his collection, which at his death 

 reached the enormous number of some 200,000 specimens, all 

 of which, well arranged and for the most part named, he 

 bequeathed to the British Museum, where they occupy 29 

 cabinets, containing 348 drawers, and 400 boxes. He became 

 a Fellow of this Society in 1855, and died 26th February, 1905. 



Geouge Bowdler Buckton, F.R.S., had been a member of 

 the Entomological Society from 1883. Incapacitated by an 



