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both at Charing Cross and Middlesex Hospitals ; and 

 although a practical botanist, he also took great interest in 

 Entomology, and formed a fine collection of British Lepidop- 

 tera. He was especially fortunate with the larger Sphingidae, 

 particularly Deilephila galii, and wrote some interesting notes 

 on the larvae of the same in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. ii. p. 5. 

 His death took place at Balmuto, Fifeshire (where his family 

 is said to have existed continuously since the 14th century) 

 on January 31st, aged 66. 



James English, was born at Epping, Essex, where he 

 received but a very elementary education. After leaving 

 school he was engaged at the shop of the celebrated Henry 

 Doubleday, in Epping, where he soon acquired a taste for the 

 pursuits of his master; and it is principally in this connection 

 that he will be remembered by members of this and kindred 

 societies, for so long as Mr. Doubleday was enabled to 

 continue his favourite study did Mr. English remain with him 

 as his collector. Whenever opportunity occurred the Fen 

 country was one of their happy hunting grounds, and English 

 was one of the last to take the two rare Lepidoptera for which 

 the district was noted, viz., Polyommatus dispar and JSoctua 

 subrosea, both now apparently extinct in these Isles. For 

 upwards of fifty years he had been a collector of biological 

 objects ; but during the latter years of his life he devoted much 

 attention to the Cryptogams, and discovered a method of 

 ineserving them. He seldom contributed anything to entomo- 

 logical literature, but has written two small works upon the 

 preservation of Fungi and Plants. He died on January 12th, 

 1888, at the age of Gy years, after an illness of six months, 

 snid to have been brought on through excessive exertion in 

 pursuit of his favourite studies. 



James Hamer died on the 14th of November, 1887, aged 46 

 years, and was interred at Southport. He was well known in 

 the North of England as a hard-working entomologist, but 

 more as a practical collector than as a writer. 



John Smith, of Kew Gardens fame, died in March, 1888, 

 at the ripe age of 92 years. He was one of our best botanists, 

 and made an especial study of Ferns, upon which he has 



