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of that rich region. His favourite study was the Coleoptera, 

 of which he formed a very extensive collection, especially rich 

 in Cerambycidae and Curculionidae. Many are the new 

 species which he described of these two families. Among his 

 many papers, Longicornia Maloyana, enumerating and des- 

 cribing the species collected by Wallace, is very valuable. 

 This collection of Coleoptera, shortly before his death, he sold 

 to the British Museum. It contains about 2,500 type specimens 

 of species described by him. This shows better than anything 

 else what amount of work Pascoe has been doing. He was 

 very active and laborious. In 1880 he published Zoological 

 Classification, in which a very large amount of useful infor- 

 mation is compressed into a small compass. 



He was elected President of the Entomological Society 

 of London in 1864, was a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Societies of France, Belgium, Stettin, and other foreign 

 Societies. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1852, and was for many years on the Council of the Royal 

 Society and the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society. In private life he was very amiable, and 

 preferred the society of other Naturalists, like himself, above 

 all others. 



Herman August Hagen, Entomologist, died at Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, United States, on the 9th of November, 

 1893. He was born at Konisberg, East Prussia, on May 

 30th, 18 1 7. In 1840, he wrote his Dissertatio Inauguralis, 

 the subject of which was the synonymy of European Dragon- 

 flies. After this, he wrote manv hundreds of articles on 

 Neuroptera. In 1 86 1 appeared his Synopsis of the Neur- 

 optera of North America. In 1867 he was asked by Louis 

 Agassiz, the Director of the Zoological Museum of Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, United States, to take charge of the 

 Entomological Section. Subsequently he became Professor 

 of Entomology at the University. I had the pleasure to make 

 his acquaintance there in 1876. With pride he showed to 

 me, and to my friend Salle, the extensive and valuable ento- 

 mological collection of the University under his charge. In 

 1882, at the age of 65, he joined a long and arduous expedi- 

 tion, and accumulated much materials, one outcome of which 

 was a paper on the genus Colias, which attracted much 

 attention. For three years he remained in very poor health 

 and finally died of the results of an attack of influenza, 



