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he was ultimately enabled to retire, and he then devoted the 

 greater part of his time to the study of Insects, the Tineina 

 being his especial favourites. But an unfortunate event 

 happened. Having become security for a friend who failed, 

 it became necessary for him to part with his magnificent 

 collection, containing upwards of 30,000 specimens ; and it 

 was brought to the hammer at Stevens's in June, 1882. So 

 untoward an event to a man nearing 60 years of age, would 

 have been well calculated in the majority of instances to lead 

 to despair, but his natural equanimity stood him in good stead 

 even at so trying a time, and he set about finding a means of 

 retrieving his losses, and proposed resuming business in a 

 subordinate capacity. But his Entomological talents were 

 too well known to be allowed to be lost to science, and he 

 was accordingly offered the curatorship of Dr. Mason's exten- 

 sive collections, which he accepted ; in addition to which he 

 was engaged in delineating, for that gentleman, numerous 

 species of Coleoptera, his execution of the plates being 

 exceedingly correct. He also again commenced the forma- 

 tion of a collection of Lepidoptera, in which he made con- 

 siderable progress, as was evinced by the rapid diminution of 

 his list of desiderata, which it was my privilege from time to 

 time to inspect. He made several additions to the British 

 Insect Fauna, one of them, Gelechia sangiella, being named 

 after him. Although he had for some time been in failing 

 health, there was, up to the time of his retiring to rest on the 

 night of his decease, nothing to lead to the supposition that 

 his end was so near at hand, and a letter that I received from 

 him within a few liours of that lamentable event, was in his 

 usual kind and genial style. He was found dead in his bed 

 on the morning of Sunday, March 20th. 



Rev. John Hellins, M.A., died May 9th, in his 58th year. 

 He took his B.A. degree at All Saint's College, Oxford, in 

 1851. He was for some years master of Exeter Grammar 

 School, and afterwards succeeded his father as Chaplain to the 

 Devon County Prison, which appointment he held until some 

 seven years ago, when he was compelled to retire on account 



