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passes to a nephew). In his early days Mr. Salvin was more exclusively an Orni- 

 thologist, and a prominent member of the British Ornithologists' Union, in connection 

 with which he helped to found the " Ibis," the third series of which he edited. 

 With Dr. Sclater he published numerous Ornithological papers and a magnificent 

 work on exotic Ornithology, and one of his last labours was the completion of the 

 late Lord Lilford's " British Birds." As an Entomologist he restricted his work to 

 exotic Rhopalocera, and most of his publications in this department were in con- 

 junction witli Mr. Godman, the joint names becoming inseparably connected on the 

 " Biologia," of which 141 parts have now appeared, the Rhopalocera being contri- 

 buted entirely by Salvin and Grodman, and now completed, excepting a portion of 

 the Sesperiidce. In this work they have enumerated 1482 species of Central 

 American Butterflies, 256 of which were new, and 46 new genera, illustrated by 90 

 plates. All will accord their sympathy with the survivor in the sudden and practi- 

 cally irreparable loss of his coadjutor. It is well known that the type collections of 

 the "Biologia" have been pi'esented to the British Museum on the completion of 

 each group, and that a portion of the duplicates of tlie Rhopalocera including 

 " co-types " of the majority of the species have been given to the Hope Museum 

 at Oxford. Mr. Salvin leaves a widow and three daughters, one of whom is married. 

 He was buried in the small cemetery not far from the quaint little parish church at 

 Fernhurst, representatives of the Councils of most of the Societies to which he 

 belonged being present. — R. McL. 



Joseph Albert Lintner, Ph.D. — Information has been received of the death, on 

 May 5th, at Eome, while on a tour in Europe, of Dr. Lintner, the State Entomolo- 

 gist for New York, whose 12th Report is noticed in the present No. He was bopn 

 in New York State on February 8th, 1832, and after completing his education was 

 engaged in commercial pursuits until 1868, when he became an Assistant in the 

 Museum at Albany, and in 1880 was appointed State Entomologist ; he took a 

 prominent position amongst the Economic Entomologists of America. 



William Miles MasTcell. — Since the notice appeared in our last No. we have 

 received from Mr. W. W. Smith, of Ashburton, and Mr. Gr. V. Hudson, of Welling- 

 ton, N. Z., some additional information about Mr. Maskell, from which we make 

 extracts. He was born in Hampshire about 58 years ago, and died after a surgical 

 operation. He was educated at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott, and at Paris. 

 After serving in the Army for a short time he went to New Zealand in 1860, and 

 was for some years a sheep farmer. In 1874 he became Provincial Secretary and 

 Treasurer of the Canterbury Province. All his life he remained a staunch Roman 

 Catholic, and anti-evolutionist, and was a man of strong bias, of which we, editori- 

 ally, more than once had very convincing proof, as we always had of his untiring 

 energy, and ardent love of science. 



Martial Jean Maurice Noualhier, of Puymaud (Haute Vienne), France, died 

 at Arcachon on April 7th, aged 37. The premature decease of this French Hemi- 

 pterist is much to be regretted. He had amassed a large collection of Hemiptera, 

 which included Lethierry's (in which were some of Fieber's types), and was specially 

 interested in the water bugs. The collections have been bequeathed to the Museum 

 of Natural History at Paris, to wliich they will form an important addition, especially 

 having regard to the fact that those of Signoret were allowed to leave France. His 

 publications were not numerous, mainly no doubt on account of his bad health, 

 which caused him to stay in the Canary Islands, in the Fauna of which he took 

 much interest. He joined the Entomological Society of France in 1882. 



