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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [February 



report of the year's proceedings, and we have great pleasure in obser- 

 ving how creditable the production is to them. It commences with 

 the Annual Pocket Box Exhibition, of December 17th 1891, and 

 gives a report of the whole of the proceedings, somewhat similar to 

 that appearing month by month in our columns, with this exception 

 that a number of the papers read at the meetings are given more or 

 less in extenso. Among them we find papers by Mr. Quail, on 

 " Preserving Larvae" ; by Mr. Tutt on "The Pterophorina," with 

 which a valuable table of species is given as it appeared in our pages ; 

 on " Dragon Flies," by Mr. Milton (published at length in the 

 " British Naturalist," Vol. 11, p. 37) ; " The Lepidoptera of Epping 

 Forest" by Mr. Payne ; "The Genus Hepialus '' by the Editor of 

 the " British Naturalist ; " " The British Coccinellidae " by our 

 Assistant-Editor, Mr. Lewcock ; a second by Mr. Tutt on his work 

 at Wicken Fen, a somewhat similar paper to that by Mr. Porritt on 

 the same subject which appeared in our pages (Vol. II., p. 1.) and 

 others. We congratulate the officers on the great advance they 

 have made, and feel sure it will gain for them a considerable accession 

 of members. 



NATURALISTS OF THE DAY. 



XIII.— THEODORE D. A. COCKERELL, 



F.Z.S., F.E.S., &C. 



The subject of the present sketch was born at Norwood, in Surrey, 

 in 1866. He is therefore far below the usual age at which naturalists 

 are known to the general public. When only 13, he resided for a few 

 months in Madeira, and paid some attention to the entomology of 

 that island. He subsequently became interested in Mollusca during 

 his residence at Margate. He was intended for the medical profession, 

 but his health broke down and he did not finish his course. In 1887 

 he went to Colorado to recruit, and worked there for a while as an 

 agricultural labourer, and afterwards as a teacher. During his 

 residence there, he became Secretary of the Colorado Biological 

 Institution. He returned to England in 1890, and in the following 

 year was appointed Curator of the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, 

 where he now 7 resides. His first published contributions to science 

 were in "Natural History Notes," 1882, and his papers in various 

 Natural History publications since then have been numerous and 

 many of them important, including " List of Mollusca of Kent, Surrey, 

 and Middlesex," " Zoologist," 1885 ; " Variation and Abnormal 

 Development of the Mollusca ; " " Science Gossip," 1885, &c. ; "Notes 

 on Slugs ; " " Annals and Magazine Natural History," 1890-91 ; 



