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of 1848. In the meantime the Entomological Society of Stettin 

 had been founded, and from 1840 onwards Zeller was a constant 

 writer in the ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung'; in 1846 the 

 same society commenced the publication of the ' Linnaea Ento- 

 mologica,' and the first volume of this contained the monographs 

 of Lithocolletis and Eudorea, which may be said to have introduced 

 Zeller to the knowledge of English entomologists. (How well 

 I remember that, at the suggestion of Mr. Stainton, my 

 immediate predecessor in this chair, I procured the volume ; 

 and how well I recollect that — a schoolboy at the time, and with 

 the kindly aid of Mr. Peter Inchbald, happily still one of our 

 Life Members — I received out of the 'Linnaea' my first lessons 

 alike in German and in Micro-Lepidopterology ! From that day 

 to this I have had an affection for Lithocolletis that I never had 

 for any other genus. But pardon this digression !) The suc- 

 cessive volumes of the ' Linnaea ' down to 1855 contained other 

 memoirs from Zeller' s pen, the last being an elaborate treatise 

 on the genus Butalis. In the same year was commenced the 

 quadrilingual 'Natural History of the Tineina' (13 vols., 

 1855 — 73), the German and Latin letterpress of which were 

 translated by Zeller from the English, and no one more readily 

 than Mr. Stainton will acknowledge the value of his collaboration. 

 In 1863 he wrote the Monograph of the Chilonidce and Crambidce; 

 and in 1867 appeared two short papers, one on the Cra/mbma, 

 Pterophorina and Alucitina collected in Palestine, and the other 

 on the Choreutidce and Cramhina collected in Egypt, by the Kev. 

 0. P. Cambridge, being the only papers of Zeller's which were 

 published in our own Transactions (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 3rd series, vol. v., pp. 453, 461). In 1872, 1873, and 1875 the 

 " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter, 

 besonders der Microlepidopteren " appeared in the Verhand- 

 lungen der k.-k. zool.-botan. Gesellschaft in Wien ; and in 1877 

 and 1881 some valuable papers on Exotic Micro-Lepidoptera 

 were published in the Horae Soc. Entom. Eossicae. Meanwhile 

 his contributions to the Stettin Zeitung continued uninter- 

 ruptedly, the duties of Librarian to the Stettin Society were 

 congenial to his tastes, and his very last act was to correct a 

 proof-sheet of the Zeitung: the ink was scarcely dry when he 

 was found dead on his study floor. 



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