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claims to our regard as one of the founders and the first President of 

 our Society. It was, indeed, at his house that the establishment of the 

 Society was resolved upon ; and the interest which he naturally took 

 in its affairs will be perceived on perusing the Preface to the first vo- 

 lume of our ' Transactions,' which was from his pen. 



Mr. Children was also the author of a translation of Odier's memoir 

 on the chemical composition of the corneous parts of insects, with 

 additions by himself, published in the first volume of the ' Zoological 

 Journal ; ' also of a Synopsis of Ochsenheimer and Treitschke's great 

 work on European Lepidoptera, which appeared in Taylor's 'Philoso- 

 phical Magazine and Annals ; ' as well as of an Abstract of the ' Sy # s- 

 tema Glossatorum ' of Fabricius, a work previously almost unknown 

 to entomologists, which appeared in the same Magazine in 1830. He 

 was likewise one of the chief supporters of the ' Zoological Journal.' 



Andrew Melly, Esq., of Liverpool. This gentleman was the pos- 

 sessor of one of the finest collections of Coleoptera ever formed, being 

 equally rich in the splendid exotic species, and those of minute size, 

 from all parts of the world. His untimely death in Egypt (where he 

 was travelling with his wife and family) has deprived Entomology of 

 one of its most indefatigable votaries : I am not, however, aware that 

 he had published any Entomological memoirs. 



Dr. J. Kidd, Regius Professor of Anatomy in the University of 

 Oxford, was the author of a Memoir upon the Anatomy of the Mole 

 Cricket, of considerable merit, published in the 'Philosophical Maga- 

 zine ' for 1825. He died full of years, universally regretted for the 

 amiability of his character and the extent of his scientific knowledge. 



General Feisthamel was the author of numerous memoirs in the 

 ' Annales ' of the French Entomological Society, Gueriu's ' Magasin 

 de Zoologie,' &c. Full of zeal for his favourite pursuit, although suf- 

 fering from a disease of the heart, under which he at last sank, he had 

 formed one of the most splendid collections of exotic Lepidoptera in 

 France : his collection of Coleoptera was also very considerable. 

 -C Professor J. Kunze, born at Leipsic in 1793, a distinguished botanist 

 and entomologist, died on the 30th of April, 1851. We are indebted 

 to him for a valuable memoir on the genus Scydmaenus, published in 

 the ' Transactions of the Natural-History Society of Leipzig,' 1823, 

 (vol. i. p. 175 — 204), with figures of all the then known species; also, 

 for a monograph, published under the title of " Entomologische 

 Fragmente," in the 2nd volume of the • Neue Schriften der Naturfor- 

 schender Gesellschaft zu Halle,' 1818, on the genera Donacia and 

 Macroplea; including a description of the larva of the latter genus: 



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