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plate, by David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. (12) " Notes on the Ontogeny 

 and Morphology of the male genital tube in Coleoptera," with one plate, 

 by F. Muir, F.E.S. There are also thirty-two pages of the Proceed- 

 ings, containing a large number of smaller communications on the 

 exhibits at the meetings, including many observations made by Fellows 

 in the interior of Africa. 



The Aculeate Hymenoptera seem to be attracting a considerable 

 amount of attention during the past year. Several erstwhile persistent 

 students of the Orders Coleoptera and Lepidoptera for many years past 

 have taken up the study of one section or other of this Order, and reports 

 of their captures and observations are coming more frequently into the 

 pages of the magazines. The Irish Naturalist for January contains 

 an account of the Hymenoptera observed during 1918 in the counties 

 of Donegal, Fermanagh, and Armagh, from the pen of the Rev. W. F. 

 Johnson. No doubt such books as Sladen's The Humble-bee, its Life- 

 history and how to Domesticate it, J. H. Fabre's Bramble Bees and Others, 

 Donisthorpe's British Ants, etc., have helped to encourage this 

 attention. 



The Naturalist for January contains the " Report cd the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union " for the year 1918. The part devoted to the Ento- 

 mological Section deals with Lepidoptera by B. Morley, Coleoptera by 

 Dr. W. J. Fordham, Neuroptera and Trichoptera by G. T. Porritt, 

 Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera by J. F. Musham, Diptera by 

 L. Butterfield, and Araehnida by W. Falconer. 



<D BITU AR Y. 



Hereward Chune Dollman, F.E.S. 



Hereward Chune Dollman died of sleeping sickness on January 

 3rd, 1919, in his 30th year, and thus was cut short at an early age 

 the promise of a brilliant career. 



Born on March 10th, 1888, he was educated at St. Paul's School 

 and St. John's College, Cambridge. He obtained an open Scholar- 

 ship in Natural Science at St. John's in 1906-1907 and an exhibition 

 for Cambridge on leaving St. Paul's. 



The St. Paul's School Museum contains many exhibits of his, 

 representing Insect Metamorphosis, Protective Coloration, Mimicry, 

 and the like. He was a very good tennis player, and played for his 

 College when at Cambridge both in Tennis and La Crosse. 



He commenced his entomological work at the early age of five, and, 

 as with so many others, his first love was British Lepidoptera ; but 

 subsequently, while still at school, he took up the study of British 

 Coleoptera. Well do I remember his first visit to me, as a schoolboy 

 armed with a letter of introduction from his father, and how struck I 

 was at once with his quickness and grasp of the subject, his vitality 

 and " joie de vivre." 



Many an excursion we took together in the following years before 

 he left England, and no one could have wished for a more interesting 

 companion, while his energy and generosity in the field filled one 

 with admiration and affection. 



Before passing on to his work abroad, one may mention among 

 his many interesting captures and discoveries in the British Coleoptera 



