178 Miscellaneous. 
Curtis furnishes us with a brief essay on the geology of Selborne ; 
while last, in the form of an Appendix, Lord Selborne gives us an 
account of his highly successful investigations into the Romano- 
British antiquities found in the bed of Woolmer Pond and other 
districts of the parish. A copious index of names and places con- 
cludes, we may add, the whole work. 
In the above notice we have purposely limited ourselves to telling 
the reader what these volumes contain. To have entered into any 
criticism upon the subject-matter of a work, the leading portion 
of which has so long received the verdict of public approval, 
would have been here wholly out of place. Sufficient is it to ob- 
serve that all future competition between publishers for the glory 
or profit accruing from editions of White’s ‘Selborne’ is now finally 
set at rest. To Van Voorst and his able Editor belong the exclusive 
merit of being the first to set before the public the full portrait of 
Gilbert White and his Selborne—that Selborne which he loved so 
wisely and so well. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Tuomas VERNON Wo.LtastTon. 
Srnce the issue of our last number we have had to lament the loss 
of one of the best and most scientific of our entomological contri- 
butors. Mr. T.V. Wollaston died suddenly, on the 4th of January, 
at his residence at Teignmouth ; and it is hard to say whether the 
feeling of regret caused by this untimely event is more inspired by 
appreciation of the good qualities of the man or of the value of his 
work. Belonging toa family which numbered Dr. Wollaston among 
its members, and could boast of more than one name of respectable 
position in literature, Mr. Wollaston certainly well maintained its 
credit by his labours in the department of science to which he 
specially devoted himself; whilst his extreme amiability, gentle- 
ness, and straightforwardness of character endeared him to all those 
who had the pleasure of his personal acquaintance. 
Born on the 9th March, 1821, Mr. Wollaston was only in his 
fifty-seventh year when he died. His love for entomology commenced 
while he was completing his studies at Jesus College, Cambridge, 
where the example of our late Botanical Editor, Mr. C. Cardale Ba- 
bington inoculated him, and two, at least, of his fellow students (the 
Reys. J. F. Dawson and Hamlet Clark), with a taste for the study of 
British Coleoptera ; and it was upon this subject that he made his first 
appearance as an entomological writer, with a short note on Coleo- 
ptera observed at Launceston, published in 1843, in the first volume 
of the ‘ Zoologist.’ This was followed in 1845 and 1847 by notes 
on the entomology of Lundy Island, which appeared in the same 
periodical ; and in the intermediate year (1846) he sent his first 
contribution to this journal, under the title of ‘ Descriptions of 
