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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



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"Geographical Distribution of Slugs;" " Proc. Zool. Soc," 1891 ; 

 " Preliminary list of the Insect Fauna of Middlesex " ; " Entomolo- 

 gist," 1889, &c. ; " 1 British Naturalist ' Catalogue of Mollusca," 1890 ; 

 articles on " Snail," " Slug " (" Chamber's Encyclopaedia," new ed., 

 1892) ; and various papers in " Nature," " Journal of Conchology," 

 " British Naturalist," " Nautilus," " Canadian Entomologist," " En- 

 tomologist," "Entomological News," Conchologist," "Naturalist," 

 "Journal of Botany," &c, &c, &c. If his life be spared, great things 

 may be expected from him in the future. 



Obituary. 



PROFESSOR J. O. WESTWOOD. 



Another of the older Entomologists, John Obadiah Westwood, 

 Hope, Professor of Zoology, has passed away. Born at Sheffield, on 

 22nd December, 1805, he had completed his 87th year, and had been 

 a writer on Entomological and other subjects for more than 65 years, 

 his first note being published in 1827. He was educated first at a 

 Friends' School, at Sheffield, and even there he evinced a strong taste 

 for Natural History and a gift for drawling from nature, in which he 

 trained himself to a wonderful pilch of skill. His family subsequently 

 removed to Lichfield, where they lived for a time in Parliament 

 Cottage, once the residence of Dr. Johnson. The Cathedral here had 

 great attractions for him, and no doubt helped to lay the foundations 

 of his taste for ecclesiastical art. His next remove was to London 

 where he was articled to a solicitor and afterwards was a partner in 

 the firm, but his heart was not there and he became more and more 

 absorbed in Entomological studies and in the paleography of art. 

 When the Entomological Society was founded in 1833 he was one of 

 the original members, and became the first Secretary, subsequently 

 he was elected Honorary Life President. He was made an honorary 

 member of the Entomological Society of Paris in succession to 

 Humboldt. His Entomological writings are legion ; perhaps the best 

 known being his " Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects," (1839-40) ; " British Butterflies and their Transformations," 

 (1843-5). In 1858 the late Mr. Hope purchased Mr. Westwood's very 

 valuable Entomological Collections, and presented them, with his own 

 extensive collections, to the University of Oxford, making him first 

 Keeper and then in 1861, Hope Professor. The University made 

 him M.A., and in 1880 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Mag- 

 dalen College. 



This is not the place to refer at length to his Archaeological and 

 Palaeographical writings. His " Palaeographiae Sacra Pictoria," " Fac- 

 similes of the Minatures and Ornaments of the Anglo-Saxon and 



