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a careful observer, and full of information. His best known 

 paper, on the Classification of Insects, was printed in ' The 

 Zoologist ' for 1858 (see pp. 5951, 6079) ; he returned to the 

 subject in 1882, in a paper read before the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Society ; and in the ' Proceedings ' of the same body he 

 had recently published a Catalogue of the Hymenoptera and 

 Diptera of those counties. 



William Alexander Forbes was born at Cheltenham on the 

 24th June, 1855 ; after going through the usual course at 

 Winchester, and studying for a time in Germany and in 

 Edinburgh, he went to Cambridge, took a first class in the 

 Natural Sciences Tripos, obtaining special distinction in Zoology 

 and Comparative Anatomy, and was elected to a Fellowship at 

 St. John's College. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Pro- 

 sector to the Zoological Society of London, and from that time 

 his attention was diverted from Entomology to Comparative 

 Anatomy, particularly of birds. In 1880 and 1881 he visited 

 South and North America; and in July, 1882, he left England 

 for a scientific journey into Africa, but died from dysentery at 

 Shonga, on the Niger, on the 14th January, 1883. His early 

 death is a great loss to zoological science, to which he had 

 already made important contributions, and his scientific papers 

 will shortly be published in the form of a memorial volume 

 under the auspices of a Committee of the Zoological Club. 



Philip Henry Harper, F.E.C.S., died at his residence in 

 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, on the 29th November, 1883, at 

 the age of sixty-one years. He had been a member of our 

 Society for nearly tweuty years, though he seldom attended our 

 meetings. He was an ardent collector of British Lepidoptera, 

 and his cabinet was rich in varieties and aberrant forms. I am 

 not aware that he ever published anything entomological. 



Edward Sheppard died at his residence in Durham Villas, 

 Kensington, on the 8th September, 1883, in his sixty-eighth 

 year ; he had only two months before retired from the office of 

 Collector of Customs for the Port of London. Formerly he 

 studied Coleoptera, especially the Chrysomelidcs and Erotylidce ; 

 and though of late years his entomological ardour relaxed, his 

 presence at our gatherings, commencing in 1852, was continued 

 to the last. His geniality and kindly disposition will long be 

 remembered amongst us. 



