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have been disappointed. As a naturalist, perhaps, Dr. Jordan's name was 

 not very familiar to the outside world ; to those who knew him best his 

 loss will be great. From his early boyhood he had been a lover of Nature, 

 and a careful observer also. His father and grandfather before him were 

 both good ornithologists, and began a work with coloured illustrations of the 

 birds of Devon, but only one or two volumes were published. He himself 

 bad a thorough knowledge of the birds of his native county, particularly of 

 the coast species. His first contribution to entomological literature was 

 nearly fifty years ago, in Newman's old ' Entomologist ' for 1842, being 

 simply a record of insects, principally Micro-lepidoptera, taken by him 

 wben a boy on the coast near Teignmouth. Since then he had been 

 steadily observing the habits not only of Lepidoptera, which was his 

 special branch, but also of Hymenoptera, and had gradually, in conse- 

 quence, amassed a goodly collection, both British and Palsearctic. He 

 travelled abroad a good deal at various times, first trying Germany, then 

 Switzerland, &c, and more recently Norway. He was, however, never 

 what is known as a Collector. It would give him quite as much pleasure 

 to see a rare creature alive as to have it in his collection, and much more 

 to watch its habits in its native haunts ; and he was thus much more a 

 practical worker (if a quiet one) and a field naturalist than a cabinet 

 naturalist. He was an old correspondent of Zeller's and Wallengren's, 

 and also of other Continental entomologists, and never entertained the 

 " insular preference " until recently so common among British entomologists. 

 Dr. Jordan was also an excellent botanist (he took the gold medal for this 

 in his College course in London), and has left a considerable herbarium of 

 British and Swiss plants. His contributions to entomological literature 

 were not voluminous : the principal ones that I have come across are 

 enumerated below ; but though his fame as an entomologist may be 

 limited, to those who knew him best and mourn him most the memory of 

 the man will remain. 



" Ever the ashes of the just 

 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." 



Note on the singular situation of a bee's nest in snail-shells. Zool. 

 1843, p. 336, pi. 1. 



Galls produced by Cynips quercus-petioli. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1854, 

 Ser. 2, pi. 3 ; Proc. p. 40. 



List of Lepidoptera captured in the vicinity of Teignmouth. Entom. 

 1842, pp. 394—396. 



Varieties of Lepidoptera and their causes. Ent. Mo. Mag. i. p. 53. 



Aquatic habits of a Hymenopteron. E. M. M. i. p. 186. 



Description of the larva of Pt. brachydactylus. E. M. M. i. p. 215. 



A few days among the Micro-lepidoptera of South Devon. E. M. M. 

 ii. p. 193. 



Notes on double-brooded insects. E. M. M. iii. p. 20. 



On the similarity of the insects of North America and England. 

 E. M. M. iii. p. 41. 



Notes on variation in Lepidoptera. E. M. M. iii. p. 251. 



Note on Pt. isodactylus. E. M. M. iv. p. 30. 



Notes on the larva of Pt. plagiodactylus, and on Elloi>ia fasciaria var, 

 prasinaria, E. M. M. iv. p. 185. 



