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died January 24th, 1908, at Kroonstadt, Orange River 

 Colony, at the age of 27 years. He collected in almost all 

 orders of insects, and among other of his notable captures 

 was the very scarce lepidopteron Coleophora tricolor at 

 Seaford (recorded by Mr. Burrand, " Ent.," xl, p. 36.) One 

 who enjoyed his company during entomological rambles 

 writes: " Had he lived he would, I believe, have developed 

 into that not too common type of entomologist who prefers 

 knowledge obtained from nature by persistent effort rather 

 than that absorbed at second hand by reading books in 

 their armchairs." 



John Thomas Carrington, who died March 5th, 1908, was 

 one of those entomologists whose personality impressed 

 itself on all who knew him. Having once known Carrington, 

 no one could ever forget him. From 1876 to 1890 he was 

 editor of the " Entomologist," and afterwards some time 

 editor of " Science Gossip," besides being connected with the 

 " Field." Many of us will remember with pleasure the 

 entertaining entomological evenings over which Carrington 

 presided at the Westminster Aquarium, and also in the 

 same place the finest entomological exhibition ever held. 

 He was for some years a member of this Society, and was 

 President in 1890. To him I owe my first introduction to 

 the entomological world. 



The entomological world generally is the poorer by the 

 loss of the following : 



Nicholas Frank Dobree, of Beverley, died at the age of 

 77, January 8th, 1908. He was greatly interested in the 

 Noctuse of the European Fauna, and his collection, which 

 is now in the Hull Museum, is perhaps the finest private 

 collection that was ever made. He travelled much, and 

 could speak five languages. 



Herbert Goss passed away on February 16th, 1908, at 

 Surbiton Hill. He was known to most of us through his 

 long tenure of the office of Secretary to the Entomological 

 Society, and by the leading part he so successfully took in 

 the agitation against the threatened spoliation of the New 

 Forest in 1892. Among his writings, perhaps the most 

 interesting are those on fossil insects, which were reprinted 

 (from the " E. M. M.") under the title of " The Geological 

 Antiquity of Insects." 



Lieut. -Colonel C. T. Bingham was an active field ento- 

 mologist, besides being a writer of eminence. He spent 

 some years in India and Burma, and contributed four 

 volumes to the " Fauna of British India," two on Hymenop- 



