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some of these are now in the University Museum at 

 Oxford, others are in the National Collection at South 

 Kensington, and others (the Coleoptera) in the Univer- 

 sity Collection at Cambridge, though I have not been 

 able to trace them all. The Coleoptera had apparently 

 been handed over to Crotch to name, and the Hymeno- 

 ptera to Frederick Smith ; but what the latter did with 

 the insects is unknown. The Egyptian and Austrian 

 Lepidoptera are in my own hands still ; but most of the 

 Egyptian insects of other Orders were disposed of to 

 a dealer. The Spiders of Egypt and those of Palestine 

 were described in two monographs, published in 1871 

 and 1876. The Hemiptera were described by Douglas 

 and Scott in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 



On April 19, 1*66, at St. Philip and St. James's 

 Church, Oxford, my father was married to Miss Rose 

 Wallace, and after a wedding-tour, in the course of 

 which they visited nearly all the English cathedrals, they 

 settled into the c Cottage ' at Bloxworth on May 14.. 

 My mother was the daughter of the Rev. James Lloyd 

 Wallace, who was Head Master of the Grammar School 

 at Sevenoaks, where she was born in 1840; but he died 

 when she was still an infant, and my grandmother after- 

 wards lived first at Brighton and then at Oxford, where 

 she took pupils, of whom one was John Wordsworth, 

 the future Bishop of Salisbury. My mother had been 

 strictly brought up, on the High Church lines of those 

 days, which now seem very old-fashioned j but old- 



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