120 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Collection to such persons as may apply to the officer in 
charge for permission to inspect it.—I am, Sir, your obedient 
servant, RUNCLIFFE OWEN, 
J. A. Crank, Esq. Director, S. Ken. 
11, Duncan Place, London Fields, Hackney, E. 
Death of Thomas Wilkinson.—We regret to have to 
chronicle the death of Thomas Wilkinson, the distinguished 
entomologist. Mr. Wilkinson died on Thursday morning, 
April 13th, at his residence in Cliff Bridge Place. The 
cause of death is supposed to have been internal rupture. 
By profession Mr. Wilkinson was a butler; but during the 
latter part of his life he was in a state of independence. At the 
time of his death he would be fifty-eight years of age. Mr. 
Wilkinson was known as an entomologist, not only in 
Britain, but on the continent of Europe. The greater part of 
his life he devoted to patient and persevering efforts in 
rearing our Micro-Lepidoptera, and watching them through 
the stages of their minute existence. By his indefatigable 
exertions he succeeded in unloosing many a Gordian knot 
that would have continued to puzzle the mere theorist for 
years to come. His knowledge was not confined to entomo- 
logical science. He was also a great botanist, and was more 
or less acquainted with many other natural sciences. It was 
not a little owing to the fine combination of knowledge 
which he possessed that he succeeded so eminently and so 
practically in his own favourite branch. He leaves behind 
him a collection of entomological specimens, which is declared 
by competent judges to be the best in the country. Mr. Wil- 
kinson united to his great abilities as a naturalist many 
personal virtues. He was a steady, upright man, mild and 
unobtrusive in his manner. There was no element of selfish- 
ness in his composition. A true lover of Nature, his mind 
was commonly absorbed in his delightful studies; and he 
was thus elevated above all meanness. Regardless of praise 
or reward, he humbly laboured in that field of science which 
he made his own. In the death of Mr. Wilkinson the town 
of Scarborough has sustained a great loss.—‘ Scarborough 
Gazetle, April 20, 1876. 
Errata.—Y. 103, line 3 (present number), “ Fourray” should be “ Fuureroy ;” 
lines 8 and 9, after “S. gibba” read “is coarsely, that of S. rufescens finely, 
punctured.”—Edward Newman. 
