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From ' The Longstaffs of Weardall and Teesdale,' by Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, we extract the following interesting particulars relative to 

 William Spence, the well-known entomologist : — " William Spence, 

 born 1783 at Bishop Burton, near Beverley (where his father farmed 

 his own estate), served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Carlill, Green- 

 wood & Co., Russian merchants and shipowners. He married Elizabeth, 

 sister of Henry Blundell, with whom he shortly after entered into 

 partnership, a partnership that lasted nearly fifty years. He lived 

 1806-1811, and probably later, at Drypool, Hull, but in 1820 he was 

 living at 40, Dock Street, Hull. For several years he was very subject 

 to severe headache, which was, indeed, almost continuous, and as a 

 consequence received the special permission of the commandant to 

 walk on the ramparts of the Citadel, which afforded a quiet and 

 secluded promenade close to his house at Drypool. He appears to 

 have visited Matlock, Clifton, and Leamington in search of health. In 

 1826 he went to the Continent, where he lived for about eight years. 

 In 1838 he appears to have been living at College Green, Bristol, but 

 in the latter part of his life (after 1843) at 18, Lower Seymour Street, 

 London, where he died 6th January, 1860, aged seventy-seven. His 

 wife died 5th April, 1855. He wrote on Political Economy, and was 

 the first editor of the 'Rockingham' newspaper, and 1815-1826 pub- 

 lished, in conjunction with his friend the Rev. William Kirby, F.R.S., 

 Rector of Barham, Suffolk, ' An Introduction to Entomology,' a 

 voluminous standard work that passed through seven editions (the 

 latest 1857). Mr. Spence was a Fellow and a Vice-President of the 

 Royal Society, a Fellow of the Linnean and several other British and 

 foreign learned societies. He and Mr. Kirby were two of the founders 

 and first honorary members of the Entomological Society of London, 

 of which he was President in 1847-8." 



In the ' Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' 

 Club for 1906 ' (published 1907), under " Bygone Hull Naturalists," 

 there is also another notice of this memorable man whose name among 

 entomologists is almost a household word. This notice is accompanied 

 by a portrait (plate xxxi.), which many will be glad to possess. We 

 have affixed it to the fly-leaf of our copy of the classic ' Introduction 

 by Kirby and Spence. 



We have received from Cambridge the ' Forty-first Annual Report 

 of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate for 1906.' Dr. S. F. 

 Harmer reports that the year has been an eventful one in respect of the 

 collection of mammals. Dr. E. C. Stirling, F.R.S., of Trinity College, 



