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the early age of thirty-seven years, after a residence of 

 seventeen years in that country. 



Miss M. E. Glanville, the very able and kind-hearted 

 Lady Curator of the Albany Museum, Graham's Town, 

 South Africa, died on April 4th. She will long be re- 

 membered by entomologists for her hearty devotion and 

 painstaking assiduity in the study of Economic Entomology. 

 On the death of her father, who might be termed the 

 founder of the Albany Museum at Graham's Town, Miss 

 Glanville, who was an ardent student of Natural History, 

 was appointed to take his place, to the great delight of 

 those connected with Biology in the district. For years 

 past her especial attention has been scientifically devoted 

 to the life histories of insects injurious to the crops of East 

 Province, S. Africa, many specimens of which, with their 

 histories, have been forv/arded to this country to her friend 

 Miss E. A. Ormerod. 



Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S., whose name was a 

 " household word," among naturalists, was born at Worcester 

 in 1 8 10, and early developed a taste for Natural History. 

 Being engaged in mercantile pursuits, he visited New- 

 foundland on business in 1827, residing there eight years, 

 during which time he found leisure to study the insects 

 of that country and of Lower Canada, making a valuable 

 and large collection. He finally settled down at Torquay, 

 where he devoted himself almost entirely to Marine Zoology, 

 the results of his studies appearing from time to time in such 

 works as "The Aquarium," "A Manual of Marine Zoology,'' 

 "Tenby, a Seaside Holiday," "The Romance of Natural 

 History," "A Year at the Shore," "Evenings at the Micro- 

 scope," and very many others ; but doubtless his most 

 important work was his " Actinologia Britannica," a history 

 of the British Sea Anemones and Corals, which was finished 

 in i860. His latest work was "The Rotifera or Wheel 

 Animalcules," which he undertook in conjunction with Mr. 

 Hudson, and completed in two large quarto volumes in 

 1886. His health, gradually failing, compelled him to rest 

 from work; and on the 23rd of September he passed 

 peacefully away, at St. Mary Church, Torquay, at the age 



