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to his fellow workers, and they spoke of him as a keen student 

 and able collector. His work was well known to men like 

 Prof. H. F. Wickham, H. W. Wenzel, Prof. W. M. Wheeler, 

 the Rev. E. Wasmann, the renowned Jesuit scholar and sci- 

 entist, and Prof. Emery of Bologna, who all regarded him with 

 respect and who were frequently indebted to him for valuable 

 material. His biographer in the St Vincent's Journal says : 

 " May the memory of our dear Father Jerome and his well- 

 spent life ever live in the hearts of his pupils, confreres and 

 friends, and incite them to a generous emulation of his many 

 noble qualities of heart and mind." 



Robert MTachlan. 



(Plate XVI.) 



Robert M'Lachlan, chief of the British Neuropterists, mon- 

 ographer of the European Trichoptera, died at Lewisham, 

 London, May 23, 1904. He was the son of Hugh M'Eachlan, 

 of Greenock, and was born April 10, 1837, near Ongar in 

 Essex, and educated chiefly at Ilford. He early acquired an 

 interest in botany, subsequently in entomology, and the in- 

 heritance of sufficient means from his father enabled him to 

 devote his life to scientific pursuits. As a lad of eighteen he 

 made a voyage to Australia and China, and brought back a 

 large collection of Australian plants. In 1896 he wrote of 

 himself, " I have travelled much in Europe, but more as a 

 collector than a tourist. ' ' 



His interest in the Neuroptera (in the Linnaean sense) dates 

 from the later fifties. In the sixties he successively mono- 

 graphed the British Trichoptera, Planipennia and Psocidae, 

 followed by a catalogue of the British Neuroptera in 1870. 



All agree that his chief work was the Monographic Revision 

 and Synopsis of the Trichoptera of the Europea?i Fauna, a 

 volume of 630 pages and 59 plates containing about 2000 

 figures, many of which illustrate structural details from his 

 own camera drawings. Published in parts from 1874 to 1880, 

 it cost him almost eight years of constant work, he told the 

 writer. A First Additional Supplement of 80 pages and 7 plates 

 appeared in 1884. 



