94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
he did not hesitate to apply his own income to the acquisition 
of a specimen or a collection which he considered it important 
that the nation should possess. Indeed the growth of the 
collection under so liberal a régime outran the means of 
accommodation, and the crowded state of the shelves soon 
tended in some degree to preclude the careful examination of 
the multitudinous objects assembled. 
The task of describing and cataloguing these vast 
collections followed as a matter of course. This was a most 
Herculean labour, and one that could not be accomplished 
single-handed. Dr. Gray therefore engaged the assistance 
and co-operation of the most advanced zoologists in every 
department of the Science. Thus, through his instrumentality, 
we have eight catalogues of sucklers, three of sucklers and 
birds together, nine of birds, siz of reptiles, and twelve of 
fishes. It is, however, in entomology that he has rendered 
the greatest service to Science, having issued nine catalogues 
of Coleoptera, five of Orthoptera, jive of Neuroptera, ten of 
Hemiptera, forly-one of Lepidoptera, seven of Diptera, and 
three of Crustacea. In addition to these we have siateen 
catalogues or lists of Molluscous, and four of Radiate animals. 
Again, we have a series of dwenty catalogues of exclusively 
British animals; thus by separating the British from the 
general collections, the English student has the opportunity 
of acquiring with less labour a knowledge of the natural pro- 
ductions of his own country. This simple enumeration of 
catalogues exhibits more clearly than can be done by any 
words of mine, what Dr. Gray accomplished on behalf of 
Natural History in our country, but these catalogues by no means 
comprise the whole of his most useful labours in this direction. 
In the “Spicelegia Zoologica” he published original figures 
and short systematic descriptions of new and _ previously 
unfigured animals, and these were continued in the “ Zoological 
Miscellany,” a serial having the same style and objects. He 
also contributed the natural history portion of the voyages of 
the “Erebus and Terror,” only lately completed. Of his 
various minor papers the list alone, published in 1882, 
occupies twenty pages in the “ Bibliographia Zoologiz ;” 
and the Catalogue of the Royal Society enumerates no 
less than four hundred and ninety-seven papers from his ever- 
active pen. 
