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profession, and practised for a few years in London as a solicitor ; 

 but finding this distasteful he gave it up, and devoted himself to 

 more congenial though less profitable pursuits, namely, entomo- 

 logy and archaeology. In both these subjects, apparently so dis- 

 similar and yet both perhaps traceable to his talent for drawing, 

 he acquired a high reputation; and though his name is probably 

 most widely known through his ' Introduction to the Modern 

 Classification of Insects,' his * British Butterflies ' and ' British 

 Moths,' written in conjunction with Humphreys, his share with 

 Spence Bate in the volume on * British Sessile-eyed Crustacea,' 

 his ' Arcana Entomologica,' and his ' Genera of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera,' in which he co-operated with Hewitson and Doubleday, 

 yet for archaeologists his name will always live in connection 

 with the ' Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria,' the * Facsimiles of the 

 Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS.,' and 

 his ' Lapidarium Wallise.' 



His connection with Oxford was due to his friendship with 

 the Rev. F. W. Hope, who in 1858 presented to that University 

 a valuable collection of insects, and formed the Hope Museum, 

 of which Westwood became curator. At that date there was no 

 Professorship of Zoology at Oxford, and Hope endowed a chair 

 of Invertebrate Zoology, to which he was to make the first nomi- 

 nation, and he accordingly, in 1861, appointed Westwood, who 

 thereupon left London to live at Oxford, where he continued to 

 reside until his death. Having had no University career, he 

 received an honorary degree of M.A., and in 1880 became an 

 Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College. He was an original 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society, which was founded in 1833, 

 and was elected Secretary thereof the following year. On three 

 occasions he was elected President for periods of two years, and 

 on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Society in 1883, he was 

 appointed Honorary President for life. He had long previously 

 been elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, namely, in 1827, 

 and was either an ordinary or an honorary member of all the 

 leading entomological societies abroad. In 1855 he was awarded 

 the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, and, if he had been so 

 minded, might have been elected a Fellow of that august body ; 

 but he would never consent to be nominated, though, in the 

 opinion of his friends, success would have been certain. 



