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his skill as an artist : wo have no one who can fill that department in 

 science which his death leaves vacant. Mr. Wing was a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, having been elected in 1852. I am only aware of 

 two entomological papers that he has written : these are intituled 



Characters of Three Nevv Genera aiul Species of Lepidoptera. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1854, p. 104. 

 Descii]itions of some Hermaphrodite British Lepidoptera, with figures of the Insects. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. v. 119. 



I must here notice the loss which our Science, although not our 

 Society, has sustained, in four other deaths which have occurred 

 during the year. 



Abel Ingpen was born on the 20th of May, 1796: he very early 

 evinced a strong predilection for Entomology, and not only collected r 

 with indefatigable industry, but was remarkably careful and neat in 

 his method of nomenclature and arrangement: the success of his la- 

 bours is proved by the fact that in 1826, or less than twenty-eight 

 years ago, he sold to the Manchester Museum a collection of British 

 insects, of his own making, for the sum of X' 100: he again made a 

 most valuable collection, not only of insects, but also of shells, fossils, 

 bird.s' eggs, prints, rare books, &c., all which were arranged and pre- 

 served with the utmost neatness and care. He was elected an Asso- 

 ciate of the Linnean Society in 1826, and was very regular in his 

 attendance at the meetings of that learned body : he was an original 

 member of the Entomological Society, and for years took an active 

 part in its proceedings, but resigned his membership in 1849. He was 

 also a member of the Microscopical Society, being devotedly fond of 

 the microscope, and having made valuable observations on the struc- 

 ture of the scales on the wings of Lepidoptera. Mr. Ingpen was the 

 author of the little work intituled ' Instructions for Collecting, Rearing 

 and Preserving British and Foreign Insects, and for Collecting and 

 Preserving Crustacea and Shells,' a neat, useful and extremely porta- 

 ble volume, which has gone through two editions, and which ought 

 to be in the hands of every entomologist : to all who have written on 

 "collecting" it forms what might be called the base of operations, 

 and is more practical and more readily understandable than anything 

 in our own language on the same subject. I find one paper by Mr. 

 Ingpen in the Transactions of our Society,* intituled " Remarks on the 



* Vol. i. p. 174. 



