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Appendix. 
Coleoptera captured in the ISTorth of Ireland." In 1833 lie piiblislied 
a catalogue of the Diptera occurring in the neighbourhood of Holy wood, 
in the county of Down ; and in the same year commenced the publica- 
tion of a series on the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus. These essays 
were written in Latin ; and, not only by the novelty and interest of the 
subject, but by the classic elegance of the style in which it was treated, 
established the author's reputation. A complete list of his many 
memoirsdownto the year 1862 willbefound inDr.Hagen's ''Bibliotheca 
Entomologica." Of these it is sufficient to mention his memoir on the 
Affinities of the Aphaniptera among Insects." In 1856 he assisted in 
establishing in this city the ''I^atural History Review," a quarterly 
Journal to which he contributed many reviews and original papers. 
Towards the close of 1861 his state of health led him to take up his 
residence in Italy with a near relative ; and soon afterwards he com- 
menced the study of the insects detrimental to the vine and the olive. 
During occasional excursions to the Campagna, to the Apennines, and 
to Sicily, he made many valuable additions to the Insect Tauna of 
Italy. In 1867, with the assistance of Professors Targioni, Tozzetti, 
and Stefanelli, he founded the Societa Entomologica Italiana. He 
obtained by his personal influence many members in Italy, France, 
Germany, and England, and contributed largely to the support of the 
Society and towards the publication of its Eollettino. He numbered 
amongst his correspondents during the forty years of his active life 
Coulter, Tardy, Kirby, Sichel, and Curtis, not to mention a host of still 
living men. Those who knew him best speak in enthusiastic terms 
of his refined taste and varied erudition, as well as of the nobleness and 
amiability of his character. He was a member of the Linnaean Society, 
and of the Entomological Societies of London, Eerlin, Stettin, and 
Paris ; and a corresponding member of the Imperial Society of N'atura- 
lists at Moscow, and of the Zoological and Eotanical Society of 
Yienna. 
He died after a short illness on the 12th of July, 1870, at the 
residence of his cousin at Lucca. By his will, dated August, 1847, he 
bequeathed his collection of insects to Trinity College, Dublin, and his 
valuable library of l^atural History to the Royal Irish Academy. 
Thomas Luby was born in the year 1799 ; he entered Trinity 
College in 1816; graduated as Gold Medallist in Science in 1821 ; 
and was elected a Eellow of the College in 1831. He was author of a 
much-esteemed work on Trigonometry, the first edition of which ap- 
peared in 1825; and of a treatise on Physical Astronomy, which was 
published in 1828. He died at Dublin on the 12th of June, 1870. "We 
are indebted to Dr. Luby for the possession of a very interesting relic. 
He found amongst the papers of a deceased brother part of a letter 
from the Rev. Charles Wolfe, containing a complete copy of the cele- 
brated ode on the burial of Sir John Moore. Ey Dr. Luby's desire, 
Dr. Anster exhibited the letter at one of our meetings in the year 1841. 
Dr. Luby afterwards presented it to the Academy, and it is preserved 
in our Library. 
