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nor big bees all the familiar bumble. He was also a coleopterist 

 of no mean attainments, and for two successive years he filled 

 the honoured post of President of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



The next name of consequence in the obituary is that of 

 William Wilson Saunders, whose work in the field of natural 

 science, both as a close observer and as a contributor to scientific 

 journals, rivals even that of Mr. Smith. A busy city man, and 

 for many years Chairman of the Committee at Lloyds, it will 

 readily be supposed that he had but scant leisure for his favourite 

 pursuits of botany and entomology, and yet during the intervals 

 of business he contrived to accumulate in both these departments 

 collections of unprecedented extent. He was, no doubt, largely 

 assisted in this by collectors abroad, many of whom, in their turn, 

 were only enabled to continue their researches by the powerful 

 arguments of his purse and of his individual encouragement. Un- 

 happily the year 1873, so disastrous to all engaged in marine 

 insurance, saw the failure of his firm, and his vast collections were 

 dispersed — most of the insects being fortunately secured by the 

 British Museum and the Hope Museum at Oxford. He also, like 

 Mr. Smith, was one of the earliest members of the Entomological 

 Society of London, and four times its President. 



Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, who died in August, was an entomo- 

 logist of only ten years' standing. He had all his life been a keen 

 obsever of natural objects, but he is, probably, an unique instance 

 of a man who, in his forty-eighth year, could throw himself into a 

 new pursuit with all the animation of his earlier sporting career, 

 and continue it with unabated ardour to the close of his life. He 

 contributed to the Aquarium exhibition a most interesting collec- 

 tion of the lepidoptera of his native county of Perth, one of the 

 richest in this order of the whole of Scotland, as may be readily 

 imagined from the fact that he produced in the " Scottish Natura- 

 list " a list of more than six hundred species captured within a 

 mile radius of Moncreiffe Hill. His innate modesty and natural 

 courtesy of behaviour endeared him to all who knew him, and his 

 early death leaves a blank in Scotland not easily filled up. Other 



