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A very large assemblage of (mostly exotic) beetles, including the majority of 

 the Curculionidce described by Dr. Imhoff, has been acquired by Andreas Bischoff- 

 Ehinger, of Basle, to whose liberality and studiously neat collection the former, on 

 more than one occasion, owed the means of continuing his works. 



A second general collection has been deposited in the Public Museum at Basle, 

 and I would here express my hope that every Swiss specimen belonging to it may be 

 carefully preserved, if possible, with Dr. Imhoff's own labels, to enable workers to 

 use the insects as types, as it would be rather a round-about way to have to get 

 information on that head from America. 



The library of Dr. Imhoff has been dispersed. — Albert Muller, Penge, S.E., 

 April, 1869. 



The late Mr. Edward William John Hopley. — This gentleman, whose name will 

 be familiar to our readers, died at his residence, No. 14, South Bank, Regent's Park, 

 London, on the 30th April, at the age of 53. Intended by his friends to follow the 

 profession of medicine, Mr. Hopley was, in early life, articled to a surgeon at Brighton j 

 but he soon relinquished that profession for the, to him, more congenial one of an artist, 

 in the exercise of which he had attained no small degree of celebrity, and he was 

 always ready to acknowledge the assistance to his art-career which his early anatomical 

 studies had afforded him. For many years he had been an assiduous collector of 

 British Lepidoptera, and turned his attention especially to the subject of -variation, on 

 which he largely experimented, by subjecting certain larvae to forced diet and unusual 

 conditions. As our pages will show, he was a genial writer and minute observer. And 

 he will long be remembered by a large circle of friends for his unvarying courtesy ; an 

 evening spent with him in his studio, surrounded by a combination of the beautiful 

 works of art and nature, was an event not likely to be soon forgotten by the numerous 

 entomologists who enjoyed that privilege. About two years since, Mr. Hopley was 

 attacked by an insidious renal disease, of a kind that has hitherto baffled all medical 

 skill, and though he retained his habitual happiness of disposition up to the last, he 

 knew that, sooner or later, he must succumb to its ravages ; yet only a short time 

 before his death he had occupied himself with a re-arrangement of his collection in & 

 new cabinet, scarcely anticipating apparently that the end was so near. One or two 

 of his most beautiful pictures received the artist's finishing touches only a few days 

 previously to his demise. 



The Insect World, being a popular account of the Orders of Insects ; by Louis 

 Figuier ; second edition, revised and corrected by E. W. Janson. London: 

 Chapman & Hall, 1869. 



Those who desire a popular treatise on general Entomology, profusely illus- 

 trated, cannot do better than supply themselves with this English translation of 

 Fi"nier's " L'Insecte." The writer belongs to the class of " book-makers " with 

 whom we have little sympathy, yet a careful compilation from trustworthy sources 

 is often better than original works by superficial observers, such as we too fre* 

 quently see ; and M. Figuier appears to have had good advisers as to the books he 

 should consult. One portion, at least, of the English translation is likely to be free 

 from striking errors, as the second edition has been entrusted to a gentleman 



