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life was wholly given to science. He was chosen an Honorary 

 Member of our body in 1849 ; three years later he came to 

 England, and, though he never repeated the visit, his name has 

 been a household word, and he was, as it were, a living presence 

 amongst us. He published a few papers on Diptera between 

 1840 and 1847, but it is as a lepidopterist that his fame will live. 

 " Prof. Zeller is the father of the present race of Micro - 

 lepidopterists ; Micro-Lepidopterology as now pursued may be 

 said to date from the appearance in the ' Isis ' of 1839 of the 

 Attempt at a natural arrangement of the smaller moths." Thus 

 was it written a quarter of a century ago ; now that he has gone, 

 the encomium may be repeated, and we can speak of him with 

 greater warmth than was permissible of a living author. 

 Venerable in appearance, courteous, gentle and charitable, 

 tolerant of the views and indulgent to the failings of others, 

 learned yet no pedant, an enthusiast in his favourite pursuit, as 

 every man ought to be, he was devoted to science for science' 

 sake. Careful and discriminating in his observations, accurate, 

 lucid and precise in his language and descriptions, his writings 

 are models for imitation. He was emphatically a professor and 

 a naturalist, a typical German, of the best Teutonic type. If 

 he was old-fashioned in his views, it must be remembered that 

 he belonged to an ante-Darwinian age; it was his misfortune, 

 rather than his fault, that he was born too soon for the modern 

 biological theories, or for the full appreciation of what, in the 

 words of the poet-peer, may be called "the fairy tales of Science 

 and the long results of Time." But when all is said, we have lost 

 in Zeller a gentleman and a scholar, who well earned the dis- 

 tinction of a Past Grand Master of Entomology. 



There are now two vacancies in our Honorary List. And I 

 invite the suggestion of names worthy to replace those of the 

 American coleopterist and the German lepidopterist, whose name 

 and fame will live, but to whom as colleagues nothing remains 

 for us but to say Farewell. 



Extending our gaze beyond the narrow circle of ourselves, we 

 have also to regret the death of the Eev. H. Harpur Crewe, so 

 well known for his intimate acquaintance with the British 

 Eiipitliecice ; of William Buckler, the artistic delineator of the 

 larvse and writer of life-histories of so many of our indigenous 



