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members ; but he has been very busy outside our ranks 

 amongst naturaHsts of great note and high position. Amongst 

 many others : — 



George Robert Waterhouse, a past President of the 

 Entomological Society, died January 2ist, 1888, in his seventy- 

 eighth year. By his decease the Entomological Society of 

 London has to deplore the loss of one of its fathers. In 1833, 

 when the Society was founded, Mr. Waterhouse was appointed 

 its first Curator. In 1835 ^e accepted the Curatorship of the 

 Royal Institute's Museum, at Liverpool, which he again 

 exchanged in little less than twelve months for the Curator- 

 ship of the Zoological Society of London. In 1843, ^^^ was 

 appointed an assistant in the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum ; and in 1844 commenced his work on the 

 "Natural HistoryofMammalia," which occupied all his available 

 time until the completion of the second volume in 1848, when, 

 owing principall}^ to the outbreak of the French Revolution, 

 the publisher was unable to continue the work. In the year 

 1849 ^^cl 1850, he was President of the Entomological Society, 

 and in the latter year he was elected Honorary Fellow of 

 the Zoological Society. He was the author of many articles 

 in various scientific journals, and was an excellent draughtsman, 

 many of his papers being illustrated by himself. Latterly he 

 occupied himself with literary research, and in his official 

 capacity was much engaged in the preparations for the removal 

 to South Kensington of the Geological Collections, which 

 since 1875 had been separated from the minerals. By his 

 advice, which his early training as an architect qualified him to 

 give, the plans for the basement and ground floors of the right 

 wing of the New Museum were considerably modified, so as to 

 increase the accommodation for the collections. This work 

 harassed him very much, and feeling unequal to the anxiety 

 therein entailed he resigned his appointment in 1880. 



Dr. John Thomas Boswell, F.L.S. (formerly known as 

 Dr. Boswell Syme), was born at Edinburgh, and educated as a 

 Civil Engineer, which profession he followed for some time. 

 But his name will always be associated with the second 

 edition of Sowerby's English Botany, which he brought to a 

 successful conclusion. For a time he was Botanical Lecturer, 



