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coming to fill up the gaps. It is with pain I have to announce- 

 the loss of one of our members by death, in the person of Mr. C. 

 Channon, a young man ardently devoted to the study of Lepi- 

 doptera. Outside our own circle, if I may so term it, death has 

 been very busy amongst men of note in the entomological world, 

 and, more particularly amongst Englishmen. Of these, I note 

 John Gray, a lover of natural history generally, whose services 

 to entomology will not soon be forgotten, although he published 

 little ; Dr. G. H. K. Thwaites, a noted Cryptogamic Botanist, but 

 who was not too much absorbed by this beautiful study to en- 

 tirely forget entomology, for many curious insects were sent by 

 him while in charge of the Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, 

 to Professor Westwood, by whom they were described ; George 

 Norman, for many years a correspondent of the Zoologist, on 

 most branches of Natural History, but in late years devoting 

 most of his time to the Hemiptera of Perthshire and Morayshire, 

 making many rare captures, and among them some new species ; 

 Beebee, Bowman, Labrey, noted for his beautiful drawings and 

 Microscopical mountings of the plumules on some of the fami- 

 lies of butterflies ; Sir Charles Wyville Thompson, LL.D. F.R.S., 

 in early life a collector of Lepidoptera, but he will most probably 

 be better remembered as the head of the Scientific Staff of the 

 Challenger Expedition; William Hay, the Venerable Archdeacon, 

 well known amongst Entomologists as a Coleopterist of no mean 

 order. The Water Beetles, or Hydrodephaga, received his most 

 careful attention, they being his especial favourites, the neigh- 

 bourhood of Askham and its bogs having to yield up many of 

 its rarities, and from this locality alone more than one species, 

 has been added to the British Fauna at the hands of this inde- 

 fatigable worker ; Chas. Robert Darwin, F.R.S., etc., at the age 

 of 74. In the death of this distinguished scientist, I think 

 (however we may differ with regard to his teachings and theories),. 



