MEMOIR OF DRURY. 



12 



61 



1 6 Humphrey 

 8 Haworth 



13 8 



10 



Macleay 

 6 Latham 



Lot 95. Scarabseus Goliathus,var. 

 100. Cerambyx Gigas, and 2 ) 

 others j 



104. Thirteen species of the 



Bupestris genus . 



105. Elater flabellicornis, vi- 



rens, and 8 others 



112. Cetoniahamata,nitens, ) 



grandis, Scarabseus fes- > 16 17 Macleay 

 tivus, and 12 others ) 



123. A variety of small in- 

 sects of the Mordella, 

 Forficula, and other 

 genera, among which 

 are Diopsis Ichneu- 

 monia, and also a spe- 

 cies of Paussus 



201. Mutillabimaculata,tho- } 



racica, Scolia signata, > 27 

 and 24 others . \ 



37 700 Ditto 



269. Sphex tropica, frontalis, ) , 9R 

 Africana,&c. . j 



5 Kirby 



6 Ditto. 



In the year 1787 Drury lost his wife, by whom 

 he had seventeen children ; all of these, however, 

 died young, excepting three who survived him. In 

 the spring of 1789 he retired from trade, relinquish- 

 ing his share of the business to his son, who paid 

 him a sum of money in hand, and allowed him an 

 annuity for the rest of his life. 



He then took a house at Broxbourne, in Hertford- 

 shire, at which he went to reside, but occasionally 

 came to London to visit his son, remaining for a 

 few weeks at a time. While at Broxbourne he con- 

 tinued to collect insects as formerly, and spent much 

 of the leisure time he now enjoyed in arranging 

 and improving his cabinet. He became very fond 



