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were carried in the earlier volumes, that the author had not 
reversed the method of his building, and begun with the 
Micro-Lepidoptera. 
C. G. Barrett became a Fellow of our Society in 1884. He 
served on the Council in 1892-3, and again in 1900-01, and 
was a Vice-President in 1901. He was President of the South 
London Entomological Society in 1892, and was an important 
member of the editorial staff of the “ Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine” from 1880 until his death. 
We deplore the loss of one who was ever ready to help his 
brother naturalists, one who invariably acted up to the high 
standard of those words which accurately express the living 
principle of our Scciety :—that we “are all members one of 
another.” 
We have also to mourn the loss of two Fellows who have 
joined our community within recent years :—E. G. J. Sparke, 
B.A., elected in 1897, and W. F. Urwick, elected in 1900. 
Both were well-known collectors of insects, comrades of 
Fellows, still happily with us, on those delightful occasions 
when friendships are made and deepened by companionship in 
the pursuit of a common interest. 
Just as the year came to a close, on December 29, the 
Entomological world suffered irreparable loss in the death, in 
his seventy-third year, of one of the most distinguished of the 
twelve great names which stand at the head of our “ List of 
Fellows,” Professor Frrepricu Moritz Braver, of Vienna. 
Brauer’s first entomological publication, a revision of the 
genus Chrysopa, appeared in 1850, and in the course of the 
next few years he published numerous papers on the biology 
of the Neuroptera, rapidly rising into the front rank of the 
European students of that order. 
In 1858 Brauer was attracted by the curious life-history of 
the Dipterous family, Oestridx, upon which he carried out the 
most minute and painstaking investigations, culminating in 
the publication, in 1863, of his classical ‘‘ Monographie der 
Oestriden.” Even with his great ability the production of 
such a work would have been impossible had he not been 
almost entirely free from other pre-occupations. This fortunate 
result was rendered possible by his position as an Assistant 
