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Lepidoptera ; * of Vincent T. Chambers, the American lepi- 

 dopterist ; of Prof. Townend Glover, Entomologist of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington ; of Oberforstmeister 

 Tischbein, the German hymenopterist ; of Gustav Flor, Professor 

 of Zoology at Dorpat, and author of the 'Rhynchoten Livlands' 

 (1860 — 61) ; of Oswald Heer, Professor of Natural History at Zu- 

 rich, author of the 'Fauna Coleoptororum Helvetica ' (1838 — 42), 

 and numerous papers on fossil insects ; of Dr. Wiliielm Carl 

 Hartwig Peters, Director of the Zoological Museum at Berlin, 

 author of the ' Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique ' 

 (vol. 2, Insecta and Myriopoda, 1862) ; and of Dr. Hermann 

 Muller, of Lippstadt, whose investigations on the fertilization 

 of flowers by insect-agency opened a new field and presented new 

 charms to entomologists. Originally published at Leipsic in 1873, 

 ' DieBefruchtung derBlumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen 

 Anpassungen beider; einBeitrag zurErkenntniss des urslichlichen 

 Zusammenhanges in der organischenNatur ' has recently appeared 

 in English, prefaced by one of Charles Darwin's latest writings: — 

 " Any young observer who, after reading the whole or part of 

 the present work, will look, for instance, at the flower of a Salvia, 

 or of some papilionaceous or fumariaceous plant, or at one of our 

 common Orchids, will be delighted at the perfection of the 

 adaptations by which insects are forced, unconsciously on their 

 part, to carry pollen from the stamens of one plant to the stigma 

 of another. Design in Nature has for a long time deeply inte- 

 rested many men, and though the subject must now be looked at 

 from a somewhat different point of view to what was formerly 

 the case, it is not thus rendered the less interesting." And then 

 he goes on to indicate how much there is yet to be added to the 

 work already done, fresh work which "will occur in abundance 

 to any young and ardent observer who will study Muller's volume 

 and then observe for himself, giving full play to his imagination, 

 but rigidly checking it by testing each notion experimentally. If 

 he will act in this manner, he will, if I may judge from my own 

 experience, receive so much pleasure from his work that he will 



* Mr. Buckler died on the 9th January, 1884, at the age of sixty-nine 

 years ; a description by him of the larva of Apamea fibrosa appeared in the 

 January number of the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' (vol. xx., p. 176). 

 He leaves behind him a long series of drawings of larvae, &c, which are 

 simply magnificent and unrivalled. 



