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We have frequently bad occasion in these pages to refer to the ento- 

 mological work which Mr. Atkinson has been doing in India and most 

 of our readers are familiar with his name and reputation. The follow- 

 ing notice from the December number of the EntomologisVs Montlily 

 Magazine succinctly represents our own sentiment. 



Mr. Atkinson was born at Tipperary ou September 6, 1840, aud passed into tlie In- 

 dian civil service in 1862. He held many important official appointments in India, 

 amongst others that, for a time, of financial secretary to the Indian Government. 

 Between 1874 and 1879 he published a gazetteer of the northwestern provinces of 

 India, and was also the author of works on Indian law and kindred subjects. As an 

 entomologist he published two series of papers on Indian Bhynchota from 1885 to 

 1890, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and a series of catalogues of 

 -the insects of the Oriental region. One of his latest works was a bulky catalogue of 

 the Capsidat of the world. Furthermore, he started the "Indian Museum Notes," 

 dealing largely with Indian economic entomology, which he was doing his best to 

 reduce to something like order by collecting information from native and other 

 sources, naturally often very crude, but of the greatest use for future working out. 

 It is most unfortunate for this latter department in particular, and for Indian en- 

 tomology in general, that he has been cut off just as he had accumulated the knowl- 

 edge of what was required, and had commenced to place that knowledge to public 

 advantage, and with remarkable energy. This energy of character asserted itself 

 in all his official duties, aud his private virtues endeared him to all with whom he 

 came in contact. 



