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3n fIDemoriam. 



SIR CHARLES STRICKLAND, Bart. 



(plate hi). 

 We regret to record the death of Sir Charles Wilhani[ Strick- 

 land, Bart., which occurred during the closing hours of the old 

 year. Sir Charles, who was over ninety yeais of age, had been 

 ill for about a fortnight, but previously had enjoyed wonderful 

 health. He took a keen interest in the natural sciences, 

 particularly geology, and was especialh' well informed with 

 regard to the structure of the district around Malton. He also 

 took a keen interest in the county Geological Society. Many 

 years ago, at York, when the present writer read his first paper, 

 Sir Charles was in the chair, and his encouraging remarks then 

 made to a lad in his 'teens will not soon be forgotten. Sir 

 Charles also took a great interest in horticulture, and was one of 

 the lirst to introduce exotic orchids into Yorkshire. The 

 antiquities of his county likewise occupied his attention. Sir 

 Charles M'as the original of ' Martin the Madman ' in ' Tom 

 Brown's School Days.' ^^'ordsworth there introduces him 



with— 



' I-et Nature be your teacher. 



Sweet is the lore which Nature brings ; 



Our mecklHng intellect 

 Misshapes the l)eauteous forms of things. 



T.S. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of the Dobree Collection of European Noctuae, 

 bv Horace B. Browne, M.A. Published for the Hull Museums Committee. 

 A. Brown iv Sons, Hull. 156 pp., i - 



This is a splendid piece of work, and we most heartily congratulate Mr. 

 Horace Browne on its completion and production. Though modestly 

 called a catalogue, it is largely a history of the well-known tine collection 

 of European Noctuse got together by the late N. F. Dobree of Beverley, 

 and presented by him to the Hull Museum. As the Preface states, it is 

 an attempt to give ' an exact record of the collection as it now is, showing 

 when, where, and by whom the specimens in it were obtained, describing 

 briefly the varietal and aberrational forms of each species,' etc. As the collec- 

 tion ' consists of a fine series of magnificent specimens from almost every 

 district in the entire Pala:^arctic Region,' and the history of nearly exery 

 specimen is given, denoted by a number in the catalogue corresponding 

 with the number in the collection, some idea may be formed of the value of 

 the catalogue, and of the amount of labour which Mr. Browne has bestowed 

 npon it. We recommend all Yorkshire lepidopterists who want to profit- 

 ably spend a spare day during the winter — usually the only time of the year 

 when they have such days — to go over to the Hull ^Museum, and study the 

 collection with this catalogue in hand, and they will not regret the excur- 

 sion. T4-ie paper, get-np, and printing are far ahead of the average of 

 such books ; and all the late Mr. Dobree's friends will be pleased to see so 

 good and characteristic a portrait as forms the frontispiece. — G.T.P. 



Naturalist, 



