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Petersburgh, had informed him that he had fonnd Matilla 
europea in a nest of Bombus muscorum; this being the first 
instance that had come to his knowledge of the parasite 
infesting the nests of that species of humble-bee. 
Death of Mr. Edwin Brown.—We regret to have to record 
the death of Edwin Brown, of Burton-on-Trent, who has long 
been widely known for his great and varied knowledge of 
Natural History. His first contributions to scientific litera- 
ture appeared in the year 1843, in the pages of the first 
volume of the ‘ Zoologist,—quadrupeds, birds, insects, and 
shells, being the subjects,—thus early foreshadowing that 
breadth of study which he developed in later life. He 
continued to send various short papers to the ‘ Zoologist,’ 
and afterwards contributed many and valuable papers to the 
Northern Entomological Society and the Midland Scientific 
Association. In 1863 appeared his chief work, the ‘ Fauna 
and Flora of the District surrounding Tutbury and Burton- 
on-Trent,’ which formed a considerable part of the ‘ Natural 
History of Tutbury, by Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., and 
Edwin Brown.’ In 1865 and 1866 he read papers on 
Geology before the British Association; but for some years 
past his spare time was devoted almost entirely to Coleoptera, 
of certain sections of which he had formed magnificent 
collections. Unfortunately his published writings bear but 
small proportion to his vast store of information. Mr. Brown 
was a fellow of the Royal Geographical and of the Geological 
Society. He was born in the year 1818, and died at Tenby, 
of an apopletic fit, on the lst September, 1876. 
Death of Mr. Blackmore.—We also have to record the 
death of Trovey Blackmore, son of the late Charles Philip 
Blackmore, who died at his residence, The Hollies, Wands- 
worth, somewhat suddenly, on the 3rd of September, 1876, 
in his forty-first year. As an entomologist Mr. Blackmore 
chiefly devoted his attention to Coleoptera. His writings 
consist of communications upon the Entomology of Algiers 
—in which country, his constitution being naturally delicate, 
he generally passed the winter—in the scientific serials of 
the day. He was also engaged upon a series of articles in 
the ‘ Miller, on “ Insects Injurious to Grain.” 
