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Conservator of the Hopeian Collection in the University 

 of Oxford. Born in 1805; studies Economic Ento- 

 mology, and Insects of all Orders from all parts of the 

 globe ; is author of " The Entomologist's Text-Book " 

 (1838), "An Introduction to the Modern Classification 

 of Insects, founded on the Natural Habits and corre- 

 sponding organization of the different families " (1839), 

 " Arcana Entomologica, or Illustrations of new, rare, 

 and interesting Exotic Insects" (1841-42), "British 

 Butterflies and Moths " (1840-45), " Cabinet of Oriental 

 Entomology," and of many papers in the Zool. Journ., 

 Trans. Z.S., Ent. S., and L.S. ; Mag. N. H., Mag. Zool. 

 and Bot., Entom. Mag., Phil. Mag., Ann. and Mag. N.H., 

 The Zoologist, Ann. Sc. Naturelles, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 Linnsea Entomologica, &c. In 1855, the Council of 

 the Royal Society awarded one of the Royal Medals to 

 Mr. Westwood, in consideration of his many valuable 

 monographs and papers on Entomology; and in 1858 

 the honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by 

 the University of Oxford. 



WIENERGEGEND-VERZEICHNISS : " Systematisches Verzeich- 

 niss der Schmetterlinge der Gegend Wien, herausgegeben 

 von einigen Lehrern am Theresianum." A systematic 

 catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Vienna district, pub- 

 lished at Vienna in 1776, and principally compiled by 

 Mich. Denis and Ign. Schiffermuller. 



WING, William, born in 1828, F.L.S., Secretary of the Ent. 

 Soc. of London, was employed as an entomological artist, 

 and distinguished for the care and accuracy with which his 

 drawings were executed ; many of the illustrations in the 

 Trans, of the Linnsean and Entom. Societies are the work 

 of his hands ; short papers by Wing will be found in the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. and the Trans. Ent. Soc. Had he lived, 

 he could not have failed to establish for himself a high 

 scientific reputation ; but his career was cut short in 1855. 

 WOCKE, Dr., of Breslau : in the Bresl. Zeitschrift fur Ento- 



mologie. 



ZELLER, Professor P. C., of Glogau, author of a series of 

 admirable monographs in the " Isis von Oken," from 

 1838-50, and in the " Linnsea Entomologica" from its 

 commencement in 1846 to 1855. Prof. Zeller is the 

 father of the present race of Micro-lepidopterists ; Micro- 

 lepidopterology, as now pursued, may be said to date 

 from the appearance, in the Isis for 1839, of the " Versuch 

 einer naturmassigen Eintheilung der Schaben." 

 ZETTERSTEDT, Johann Wilhelm, Professor of Zoology in the 



