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parishioners ; a warm and constant friend ; and one of the most 

 single-minded, retiring, modest and kind-hearted of men. 



As an active contributor to science Mr. Kirby has for some years 

 been lost to us ; his death leaves no gap in the scientific world : he 

 lives and will live in his works ; through these his spirit will continue 

 to instruct us, and not ourselves only, but our children and our 

 children's children. The most important of his publications are enu- 

 merated below. 



I. ' Monographia Apum Angliag ; or an attempt to divide into their 

 natural genera and families such species of the Linnsean 

 genus Apis as have been discovered in England.' 2 vols. 

 8vo., 642 pp., 17 plates. 

 (It may briefly be observed that this is the earliest attempt at 

 a complete digest of the genus, although preceding that by 

 Latreille by a short interval only. The plates were etched 

 by Mr. Kirby himself, who had learned that art for this es- 

 pecial purpose.) 

 IT. ' An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural 

 History of Insects.' 4 vols. 8vo., 2451 pp., 30 plates. (This 

 well-known work was the joint production of Mr. Kirby 

 and Mr. Spence.) 



III. 'On the History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals.' Being 



the Seventh Bridgwater Treatise. 2 vols. 8vo., 948 pp., 

 17 plates. 



IV. 'Fauna Boreali-Americana. By Dr. John Richardson, &c. 



Part IV. The Insects.' 1 vol. 4to., 325 pp., 8 plates. 



V. ' Descriptions of Three New Species of Hirudo.' Published 



in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 

 ii. p. 316. 



VI. ' A History of Three Species of Cassida.' Id. iii. p. 7. 



VII. ' Ammophila, a new genus of Insects of the class Hymeno- 



ptera, including the Sphex sabulosa of Linnaeus.' Id. iv. 

 p. 195. 



VIII. ' History of Tipula Tritici and Ichneumon Tipulae, with 



some Observations upon other Insects that attend the 

 Wheat.' Id. iv. p. 230. 



IX. 'A Continuation of the History of Tipula Tritici.' Id. v. 



p. 96. 



