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four voyages, visiting and exploring Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, French Guyana, &c., 
amassing vast stores of the natural productions of these countries, and publishing, 
on his return, an account of his expeditions. In 1835 he accepted the professorship 
of Zoology at the University of Liége, and afterwards also that of Comparative 
Anatomy; eventually he became rector. He died at Liége, on the 18th July last, 
in his 70th year, his end having been probably hastened by the death, early that 
month, of a favourite daughter. As an entomologist, and especially as a Coleop- 
terist, Lacordaire had for many years occupied a very high pinnacle of fame. 
To specify and examine his publications would occupy more space than we can 
afford—we mention one work only, a work which will hand down his name to 
generations of entomologists yet unborn, as a masterpiece of research. We allude 
to his ‘‘ Genera des Coléopterés,” forming part of the “ Nouvelles suites 4 Buffon.” 
Commenced in 1854, he had already, at the time of his death, published eight com- 
plete volumes and the first part of the ninth vol. of this gigantic undertaking, the 
concluding part of that volume being in the press. But he was not to finish 
his labours—one more volume (that comprising the Phytophaga, his favourite 
group, which he monographed twenty-five years ago), and the edifice so admirably 
begun and continued by him would have been completed. Let us hope the 
materials for that volume may have been left in such a state that some editor 
worthy of his task may be able to put the finishing stroke to what must 
remain a monument of research. Lacordaire was essentially a student, and not a 
collector, of insects. Though, of necessity, his stores must have been rich, he used 
them for their legitimate purpose of furthering his investigations; and, when each 
part of his work was completed, his materials for that part were usually dispersed, 
so as to leave him untrammelled for the work to come: in some respects he relied 
more on the collections of others than upon his own, for he spared no means by 
which to obtain a personal examination of the generic types described by various 
workers, so as to satisfy himself of their value, and so as to be able to correct or 
amend their descriptions, a task we fear too often necessary. His was the master 
mind which was to put in order the chaos of scattered observations. He was 
Honorary Member of most of the European Entomological Societies. 
Thomas Henry Allis.—On the 1st August, at York, at the age of 53 years, 
passed from amongst us T. H. Allis, whose name will be long remembered by British 
Entomologists, and whose noble-heartedness will long cause him to be lamented by a 
large circle of fellow-workers. Mr. Allis was educated at the Friends’ School at 
York, and among his school-fellows were Benjamin and Nicholas Cooke, Edwin 
Birchall, and others not unknown as devoted students of entomology. The taste 
for Natural History exhibited in this circle of boys was no doubt fostered and en- 
couraged by Mr. Allis’s now venerable father, Thomas Allis, well-known as a 
paleontologist. In after life his avocations necessitated a constant removal from 
place to place, and in this way he was enabled to explore many favoured entomological 
localities, and to amass by his own exertions, and by continued communication with 
entomologists, a collection of British Lepidoptera, which for extent and beauty is 
almost unrivalled. With great satisfaction we learn that this collection is not 
likely to be dispersed; it is of additional importance, inasmuch as it contains a 
uumber of types from the cabinet of the celebrated A. H. Haworth. But, besides 
his collection of Lepidoptera, Mr. Allis also possessed a magnificent set of British 
Falconide, the greater part of which were prepared by his friend Graham of York, 
a justly celebrated taxidermist. His name will go down to posterity in connection 
with Exeretia Allisiella, discovered by him some twenty years since, and which, until 
