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at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. For the last 15 years of his life he 
lived at Christchurch, in Hampshire, devoting a very large share of 
his time to conchology ; he worked out the mollusca of the district 
so thoroughly that there is comparatively little left for others to do; 
he gave much time, pains, and skill to anatomical research. Those 
who would follow his work in this line may be referred to a forth- 
coming article in the ‘ Journal of Conchology,’ by Mr. J. W. Taylor, 
to whom we are indebted for the use of the autograph and portrait 
appearing in this month’s ‘ Naturalist ’—the autograph is reproduced 
from the last letter that he ever wrote, penned late in the evening 
Leeds Museum—nof 20 oraed from the district where he first began 
to study the science. All northern conchologists should make 
an effort to see the ‘ Ashford Coinceibit while it is in Yorkshire— 
it is not too much to say that there will be few who cannot learn 
something from the care and taste of the arrangement or from the 
instructive series from various localities of one species or another. 
For some time a gradual failure of his health had been apparent, 
and on the 31st of January last he was found unconscious in his bed, 
and died almost immediately. Up to a late hour the evening 
before he must have been at work at his favourite study, willingly 
interrupting it, however, to give half-an-hour’s advice and practical 
help in scientific matters to the writer of this notice. We who knew 
his fund of humour, his kindly acts, his life so lived for others, long 
* For the touch of a vanished hand 
And the sound of a voice that is still.’ 
CHRISTCHURCH, HANTs, C. Irwin EVANS. 
May 1894. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
At the meeting of the Entomological sgiiegr of London, held on March 14th, 
1894, the Rev. Canon Fowler read a pape ‘Some new species of Membracide,’ 
a family of Hemiptera. 
poo. 
At the meeting a hee Rare be es: Society of seed i held on 11th, ibaa 
were exhibited, for M ney, once of Nottingham, sev 
of a species of Hem sr “Se int —— Fa b.), an of a species nip Leridoptera 
the former. ‘ ney had eh th species abundantly on the roots and 
trunks of trees in hase n Noy rec last, in ee a Aha Ants (several species 
‘amponotus and CA emastgaster The Hemiptera appeared to be distasteful to 
the Ants, as they were n molested by them; cor het 1ought that the heaps of 
Lepidoptera was dadwets eoaly | protected from attack by its Seu imitation of t 
eevee: Mr. Goss said he was indebted to Mr. C. J. Gahan for determinitg 
the species. A discussion followed on the mimicking species 
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