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DOCTOF^ Emin Pasha. — This eminent man was born at 

 Opella in Silesia, on March 28th, 1840, and was killed by the 

 Arabs in the Manyema country in 1893. Everyone who has 

 read Stanley's last work on "Equatorial Africa" is well 

 acquainted with the name of the celebrated traveller, E77iin 

 Pasha ; but few are those who are aware that he was an 

 enthusiastic collector. Many are the Birds and Insects col- 

 lected by him and sent to England or to Germany. 



He discovered many new species of Birds and Insects 

 which were described by MM. Hartlaub, Shelley, Reichenow, 

 Bates, and others. 



Lately, his papers and body were recovered and brought 

 to his native country. 



His name is commemorated in Ornithology by the genus 

 Eminia of Hartlaub. Seven different species of Birds have 

 also been dedicated to him. 



J. T. M. Bigot, French Entomologist died in Paris on 

 the 14th of April, 1893. He had been a member of the 

 Entomological Society of France since 1844, and his first 

 paper appeared in its annals in 1865. During his life-time he 

 formed a magnificent collection of Diptera, and described 

 several score of new species, chiefly in the Annals of the 

 French Entomological Society. His last paper, written just 

 before his death, appeared in the Hu77i7ni7i^ Bird, vol. ii., No. 

 7, p. 49. It was the description of a large new Parasite 

 Diptera, Ornithomyia geniculata, found by myself on the body 

 of the beautiful Trogon bird, Pharomacriis costaricensis. 

 Bigot formed also a very valuable collection of grotesque old 

 Japanese figurines. When I saw him last in Paris, he had a 

 very large cabinet crowded with them. Bigot in his social 

 intercourse was very cordial and a true gentleman. 



Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, English Zoologist, 

 died at Brighton on the 20th of June, 1893. He was born at 

 Penzance on September ist, 1813. He was educated at the 

 Grammar School of his native town, and subsequently entered 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital as a student. In 1835 he was 

 appointed in the Navy as Surgeon. In 1843 he married Miss 

 Glasson, of Falmouth, and retired from the service. In 185 1 

 he was left a widower, and settled in London, devoting his 

 attention to Natural History generally. He travelled nearly 

 over the whole of Europe, North Africa, Madeira, &c., and 

 once made a voyage to Lower Amazons to study the marvels 



