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house lies embosomed, he could survey, as if it were his own, the 

 great expanse before him of Eichmond Park. To the pond in 

 front of his lawn the deer would come trooping to drink. 

 Squirrels gambolled round the ancient trunks, and descended to 

 feed before him ; blackbirds and thrushes charmed him inces- 

 santly with their songs ; and during the summer months warblers 

 of all kinds abounded in the old-fashioned garden and shrubberies, 

 which he allowed to run wild for their protection. It was there 

 that he delighted to sit and converse with his friends and visitors, 

 none of whom departed (it may surely be said) without having 

 learnt much that he did not know before. And there it was that, 

 amidst such peaceful surroundings, on the 18th December last, 

 he passed quietly away, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The late Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S.— By the death of Mr. Stainton, 

 on December 2nd, at the age of seventy, entomological science has lost one 

 of its most original and prominent workers. As a specialist he turned his 

 attention chiefly to the minute insects known as Micro-Lepidoptera, which 

 are often of marvellous beauty, and almost equally marvellous in their habits; 

 and in connection with these his principal work is the ' Natural History of 

 the Tineina,' in four languages, with many fiue plates, a book which 

 extended to more than a dozen volumes. He also published a ■ Manual of 

 British Butterflies and Moths,' which remains the most concise and useful 

 handbook on the subject. A host of other works and memoirs in journals 

 and the Transactions of Societis, from his pen, testify to his untiring 

 industry. As an entomological journalist he established the (now extinct) 

 'Annual' and 'Intelligencer,' and he was one of the founders of the 

 ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine ' in 1864, and continued one of its 

 editors until his death. As regards general Natural History, he was for 

 many years Secretary of the Ray Society, of the Zoological Record Associa- 

 tion, and one of the secretaries of Section D of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. He had been a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London, of which he was an ex-president, since 1848, and of the 

 Linnean Society since 1859, and at one time a vice-president. In 1867 he 

 was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and had been on the council. 

 Mr. Stainton was born in London in 1822, and died at Lewisham, where 

 he had resided all his life.— 'The Times; Dec. 12th, 



