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the larger public he was affectionately known as the father of " Bank 

 Holidays." His name was also very familiar to me personally as 

 being one of the oldest members of the Holmesdale Natural His- 

 tory Club, of which I have for some years been hon. treasurer. 



On January 19th died the Rev. J. Sandy Brown, the doyen of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. He was an all-round 

 naturalist, photographer, and microscopist, and made a large collec- 

 tion of specimens : among them the rare hemipteron Aplwlacliirus 

 (csticalis, which he met with in the Norwich river. 



George Baker, who died early in February in Guernsey at the 

 ripe age of 83 years, was one of our keenest lepidopterists of half- 

 a-century ago. He bred Liastropacha ilicifolia from wild larvae 

 collected on the Sheffield moors in 1860. Later in life he was 

 intimately associated with Harpur Crewe in working out the life- 

 histories of the Eiipithecia', and himself discovered the larvie of 

 several species. He was for many years joint curator with the late 

 John Sang, of the collection owned by the late Dr. Mason, of 

 Burton-on-Trent, being obliged to give up the work in consequence 

 of the loss of an eye, as a result of the close application entailed. 

 Latterly he had lived in Guernsey, and retained his active interest 

 in Lepidoptera to the last, several species being added to the local 

 fauna as the result of his labours. 



Dr. Auguste Puton, a prolific writer on Palaearctic Hemiptera, 

 died after a brief illness at Remiremont, France, on April 8th last. 

 He joined the Societe Entomologique de France in 1856, and was 

 Senior Honorary Member at the time of his death. His 

 " Catalogue de Hemipteres (Heteropteres, Cicadines, et Psyllides) " 

 was well known to all students of the order. For some years 

 before his death he appears to have given up Entomological 

 pursuits. 



The death of Herbert Druce, on April 11 tb, at the age of 67, 

 removed one of our best-known exotic lepidopterists. He was 

 elected Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1867, and served 

 on the council in 1885 and 1892. Large numbers of species were 

 described by him in the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London," and the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" 

 over a long series of years, his principal work being the Heterocera 

 of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana," in three volumes. The first 

 collection (Rhopalocera) made by him is now in the British 

 Museum, while the bulk of his second and larger collection has 

 passed into the hands of Capt. Joicey of Godalming since h'is 

 death. His son, H. H. Druce, F.E.S., has inherited his father's 



