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earliest book, " Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro," described 

 his adventures and observations in this region. Soon afterwards 

 commenced his stay of eight years in the remote East, during 

 part of which time he lived alone on the mainland of New Guinea. 

 During this period he collected an enormous number of species 

 new to science, and the resultant book, the "Malay Archipelago," 

 published in 1869, is one of the most fascinating works on 

 natural history travel extant. On June 1st, 1863, after his 

 return, he was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society by 

 acclamation, and without formal ballot, as a slight recognition of 

 the vast services he had rendered to science. He was president 

 of the Society in 1871-2, and in 1878 published his great work 

 on geographical distribution ; while about this time a large 

 number of important papers from his pen, on systemic and 

 general entomology, appeared in the scientific press. In 1908 

 he received the Order of Merit at the hands of H.M. the late 

 King Edward, a fitting culmination to the long list of scientific 

 honours which had already been conferred upon him. Up to the 

 last he maintained his mental and physical activities, and an 

 important paper by him on the social questions in which he was 

 so deeply interested, was published only a few months back. 



Count Michael Nikolaievitch Rostortseff, a member of the 

 Russian Entomological Society, died during last year at the age 

 of 44. Although perhaps not widely known in entomological 

 circles outside St. Petersburg, he was regarded by his many 

 personal friends as a charming and gifted man. He collected 

 insects extensively m 1908 in the South of Italy and in Northern 

 Africa. 



Amongst the many publications of interest to the entomologist 

 issued during 1918 it is impossible to attempt the compilation of 

 anything like a complete list in this address, but I will endeavour 

 to mention as briefly as possible some of those which have been 

 brought particularly under my notice. 



" Catalogue des Lepidopteres observes dans I'Ouest de la France, 

 Part I. Macro-lepidopteres," by Henri Gelin and Daniel Lucas, 

 provides a reliable review of the whole Atlantic region from 

 Finistere to liasses Pyrenees and can be thoroughly recommended 

 to the British student collector, as well as to those who spend 

 their holidays on the Continent. 



" Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phaheufe in the British 

 Museum," Vol. xii., by Sir George F. Hampson, Bart, deals with 



