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considerate. Those whose privilege it was to work with him at the 

 Institute found him inspiring and original, and ever ready to give the 

 best of his wide knowledge whenever his advice was sought. 



A very appreciative notice of Bacot and his work, from the pen of 

 Dr. C. J. Martin, Director of the Lister Institute, appeared in 

 ' Nature ' on May 13th. To this we are indebted for several details 

 concerning the medical side of BacotVwork, and without which any 

 notice would be incomplete. L. B. P. and G. T. 



E. F. L. Burton. 



All scientists who knew him, those particularly of his native 

 county, Shropshire, much regret the passing of Eichard Francis 

 Lingen Burton, of Longner Hall, Shrewsbury, after a long illness, on 

 January 8th last. Born in 1864, and educated at Eton, he was a 

 man of varied attainments, especially devoted to botany and zoology, 

 including entomology. Having lived many years in New Zealand, 

 where he farmed on a large scale, he knew the fauna and flora of 

 that country most intimately, and was successful in growing at Longner 

 many of the endemic plants, which stood the English climate better 

 than might have been imagined. He paid particular attention to the 

 Orchidaceous tribe, both British and New Zealandic, and likewise 

 studied Culicidae, publishing an account of our British mosquitoes, 

 most of which were found to occur on his estate, bordered as it is by 

 the Eiver Severn for a long distance. He also discovered the rare bee- 

 fly (Pocata apiformis) to be a native of Salop, and aided much in the 

 compilation of the preliminary Catalogue of the Diptera of this 

 country, which was published in the ' Ent. Mo. Mag.' for November. 

 1920. J. C. M. 



H. Fruhstorfer. 



We very much regret to announce the death of Hans Fruhstorfer 

 at Munich on April 9th last after an unsuccessful operation for cancer. 

 He was only in his fifty-fifth year. 



A man of genial disposition and of untiring energy and boundless 

 entomological enthusiasm, devoted almost entirely to the Ehopalocera, 

 he had during the last 25 to 30 years produced a prodigious number of 

 papers on that subject and written a very large proportion of the Ehopa- 

 locera Section of Seitz' Exotic Macro- Lepidoptera, largely based on 

 the results of his own collecting trips abroad. His work contains 

 unfortunately many errors — he worked too fast to allow himself time 

 to check his detail — and in the matter of his racial names many 

 without doubt will have to be discarded. But there will always 

 remain a great deal of value ; he is without doubt a great loss to 

 Entomology. N. D. E. 



