3fift£ gears' Entomology in Bristol. 
Alfred K. Hudd, F.S.A., F.E.S., and George C. Griffiths, 
F.E.S. 
AN Entomological Section was formed on 12th May, 1864, soon 
after the foundation of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, of 
which Mr. Stephen Barton, F.E.S., was elected President ; this 
office he retained till 1898. 
Mr. Barton, in his younger days, had been a diligent collector 
of British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. In the early 'fifties he 
visited Australia, and on his return to England brought home a 
large collection of Natural History specimens, especially 
Coleoptera, many of which were new to science. Had he pub- 
lished descriptions of these he would have been better known to 
the Entomological world, but being in business he left this task 
to others, and several new species were described from specimens 
in his collection by H. W. Bates and others, some of which were 
named after him — bartoni. He added considerably during his 
lifetime to the Insect Collection in the Bristol Museum, and after 
his death in 1898, his niece, Miss Barton- Johnson, gave to that 
institution a fine collection of Buprestidae and other insects. When 
his collections were sold in London in 1899, some thousands of 
specimens were purchased for the Museum, and now form part 
of the considerable collections in the Greville Smyth Room. 
Many interesting specimens of insects were exhibited at meet- 
ings of the Section by Mr. Barton, but he did not publish any 
papers in the Proceedings, though he contributed notes on local 
insects to the volume on "Bristol and its Environs , JJ printed for 
the use of members of the British Association in 1875, and assisted 
in the compilation of the local catalogue of Lepidoptera published 
in our Proceedings, Vols. II. to IV., 1877-84. 
The first Secretary of the Section was Mr. Edwyn C. Reed, but 
hie only held the office for a short time, sailing for South America 
in February, 1865, and for a while collecting in Brazil. In Sep- 
tember, j 868, he returned home and read at the Section a paper 
on Entomology in the ' Brazils. A further paper from his pen 
was communicated to the General Meeting of the Society in 
November of the same year. At the same meeting Mr. Reed was 
elected a Corresponding Member of the Society. Shortly after- 
wards he went to Valparaiso, and subsequently became Curator 
of the Museum at Santiago. His last appointment was the Curator- 
ship of the Museum at Concepcion, Chili, where he died in 
November, 1910. Reed collected both Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, 
and recorded some of his captures in the Entomologists' Monthly 
