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Andrew Murray, F.L.S., died on the 10th January, 1878, at 

 the age of sixty-five, having been born on the 19th February, 1812. 

 For the last twenty-five years Mr. Murray has been a constant 

 contributor to the scientific periodicals both of Scotland and 

 England of articles upon entomological subjects; among these 

 may be mentioned a report on the beetles of Scotland, published 

 in 1852, and in the following year a catalogue of the same insects; 

 monographs of the beetles of the family Sjjhceridiidce and of the 

 genera Cercyon (1853) and Catops (186G); descriptions of some 

 insects from the Rocky Mountains in 1853 ; descriptions of new 

 Coleoptera from the Western Andes and the neighbourhood of 

 Quito in 1855, 1856 and 1857 ; a numerous series of articles on 

 the Coleoptera of Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa (pub- 

 lished in the 'Annals of Natural History,' 1857 — 59); the first 

 part of a very extensive monograph of the family NitiduliclcB (in 

 the ' Transactions ' of the Linnean Society) ; a curious paper on 

 the species of Pedicidi infesting the different races of men (in the 

 ' Transactions ' of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1860). As an 

 entomologist he will, however, be longer and more generally known 

 by his labours in establishing the entomological department of the 

 Museum of Science and Art, now transferred to the Bethnal Green 

 Museum, in which a very curious and extensive series of the 

 beneficial and destructive species of insects has been collected, 

 with specimens of the injurious effects of the latter on the objects 

 which they attack, illustrated by highly magnified coloured figures, 

 forming a very valuable Museum of Economic Entomology. This 

 collection it was intended should form the basis of a series of 

 handbooks on the economy of insects, of which the first, devoted 

 to the Linnean Aptera, or wingless species, has only been hitherto 

 published. Mr. Murray also publislied a large quarto volume on 

 the geographical distribution of Mammals (1866), with 103 maps, 

 and was well known as a good botanist and a monographer of the 

 genus Pimis, published in the ' (hardeners' Chronicle,' to which 

 he was latterly a constant contributor. 



James Scott Bowerbank, LL.D., F.R.S., L.S., G.S., &c., one 

 of the original founders of our own Society, as well as of the 

 Palaeontological and Microscopical Societies, and (in conjunction 

 with Dr Johnston) of the Ray Society, was born on the l4tli Julv, 

 1797, and died on the 9th March last. Although more especially 

 devoted to the structures of sponges and flints, upon which he 



