466 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Rev. Andrew Matthews. 



We regret to announce the death of this well-known British 

 naturalist, who died, at the age of eighty-two, on September 14th 

 last, at Gumley, of which he had been rector for forty-four years. 

 He was born on June 18th, 1815, the day of Waterloo, and by 

 a coincidence died on an anniversary of the death of the Duke 

 of Wellington. Mr. Matthews was more widely known as an 

 entomologist than an ornithologist, and may be said to have 

 inherited his zoological tastes, as his father was also a naturalist 

 and a contemporary of Dale, Stevens, Curtis, and other well- 

 known men of that period. In 1849, in conjunction with his 

 brother Henry Matthews, he published ' The History of the Birds 

 of Oxfordshire and its Neighbourhood.' We learn from his son 

 (Dr. J. C. S. Matthews) that he leaves a collection of British Birds 

 containing about 450 specimens, chiefly obtained by himself and his 

 father in Oxfordshire and the New Forest. This collection also 

 comprises the first Ibis recorded in this country, shot in Norfolk 

 200 years ago and noted by Pennant, and two specimens of the 

 Avocet, likewise mentioned by that old author. 



As an entomologist he will be best remembered as an authority 

 on the minute beetles, Trichopterygidce, of which he described many 

 species, and, in 1872, published his well-known ' Trichopterygia 

 illustrata,' of which in his eightieth year he completed a second 

 volume which is now in the publisher's hands. He was also the 

 contributor on this group to Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Cen- 

 trali-Americana,' and joint author with the Rev. W. W. Fowler 

 of a Catalogue of British Coleoptera in 1883. When we add 

 that Mr. Matthews was also a successful floriculturist, especially 

 with regard to Pelargoniums and Picotees, we take leave of a long, 

 happy, and useful life passed in the culture and leisure of a rural 

 rectory. 



Mr. Matthews was an old contributor to these pages ; we 

 notice his name as far back as 1847. 



