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retired from the service, settling near St. Austell, in the vicinity of which he had 

 a property producing Kaolin (China clay). He was left a widower in 1851, and 

 then settled permanently in London, and devoted his attention entirely to Entomo- 

 logy and Natural History generally. But until lately he travelled much, either 

 alone or in the company of one or more of his daughters, and in this way he 

 traversed nearly over the whole of Europe, North Africa, &c., and once made a 

 voyage to the Lower Amazons to make personal acquaintance with the natural 

 marvels of that rich region. But he had not the aptitude for collecting, and thus 

 the results of his travels were small in materials as compared with what they might 

 have been. As a writer he commenced with a botanical paper in Henfrey's Botanical 

 Q-azette in 18 ""0, enumerating unrecoi'ded Cornish plants. But he mainly devoted 

 himself to Coleoptera, commencing with the Longicorns, on which he published 

 much, including " Longicornia Malayana" enumerating and describing the species 

 collected by Wallace, which formed Vol. iii of the third series of the Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864—1869, containing 712 pp. with 24 coloured plates. Subsequently 

 the ColydiidcB and cognate groups, and still later tlie Curculionidce, engaged his 

 attention, and the number of his published papers on Coleoptera is very great. His 

 collections of Coleoptera he sold to the British Museum not long before his death, 

 when ill health warned him that he could make no further use of them : we believe 

 they contained above 2500 type specimens of species described by him. For many 

 years he had also accumulated an enormous mass of materials illustrative of a 

 " Systema Naturse," mainly arranged in pasteboard boxes, and mostly mounted on 

 card quite irrespective of size, a practice that caused him to be the object of a certain 

 amount of good natured " chaff." His active mind was never at rest, and latterly 

 he produced quite a small librai-y of 12mo works on the animal kingdom, mostly 

 compilations, the raison d'itre of some of which was difficult to imagine, but 

 some were decidedly useful, and especially the second edition of his " Zoological 

 Classification " (1880), in which an enormous amount of information is compressed 

 into a small compass. He was an ardent admirer of Darwin and a staunch evo- 

 lutionist, but a strong disbeliever in Natural Selection in the sense in which the 

 term is applied by many post-Darwinians, and in 1890 he gave vent to his strong 

 feelings on this point in an exposition of the Darwinian theory, which was the last 

 of his separate publications : we think it did not attract the amount of attention 

 the author assumed it would. He was also the editor of the short-lived "Journal 

 of Entomology, descriptive and geographical." He joined the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1854, and was President in 1864 — 65, and there was scarcely 

 any more regular attendant at the Meetings ; was a Member of the Entomological 

 Society of France since 1862 ; and belonged also to the Belgian, Stettin, and other 

 foreign Societies. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1852, and was 

 for many years on the Council of the Ray Society and the Scientific Committee of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society ; it may be said of him that he was never happy 

 save in the company of Naturalists. 



In private life Pascoe showed himself, as in his writings, a man of strong bias 

 and opinions, but he never allowed these feelings to influ3nce his friendships. In 

 society he was amiable to a point, and the social gatherings at his house were always 

 enjoyable. Less than two years ago he was overtaken by bad health, and was advised 

 to reside in the country, which he did, firstly at Tunbridge Wells and latterly at 



