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FIFTY YEARS ENTOMOLOGY IN BRISTOL. 
Magazine * He also published a small work in Spanish on Chilian 
Butterflies, "Mariposas Chilenas": this appeared in 1877, and 
subsequently papers on Chilian Hymenoptera. He was a fellow 
of the Entomological Society of London from 1874 to 1910 and a 
Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of London. 
In January, 1865, Mr. John Barber was elected Secretary of the 
Section, but held office only a few months, resigning his post in 
July of the same year. Mr. Barber was an original member of the 
Society, and collected Coleoptera and Hemiptera-Homoptera. He 
appears to have read papers before the Section on the " Wings of 
Insects," in 1864, and on the genus Quedius in 1866. We do not 
know what became of his collections. 
The Secretaryship of the Section was next filled by Mr. George 
Harding, F.E.S., who retained office until 1896. He collected 
chiefly Lepidoptera, mainly in the neighbourhood of Stapleton, 
and added considerably to our knowledge of local species ; he also 
collected Exotic Coleoptera. He contributed papers to the 
Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, and to our Proceedings, in- 
cluding a List of Additions to the Bristol List of Lepidoptera 
(Proc. B.N.S., Vol. VIII., n. ser. pp. 55-59). 
Mr. Harding was succeeded by the present Sectional Secretary, 
Mr. Charles Bartlett, who collects Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, 
and has done much useful work in arranging the Collection of 
British Coleoptera in Bristol Museum. 
Other original members of the Society interested in Entomology 
were : — Mr. Henry Bolt, who with Mr. John Bolt, devoted himself 
to the Lepidoptera : the latter had a good collection of local speci- 
mens ; Mr. F. V. Jacques, who collected Coleoptera and 
Lepidoptera about 1850-60. He and Mr. Barton met with several 
specimens of the rare longicorn beetle, Lamia textor, and of the 
still rarer Odontceus (formerly called Bolboceras) mobilicornis in 
the neighbourhood of Bristol, neither of these species being now 
found here. 
Prof. Adolph Leipner, one of the most enthusiastic of the early 
members of the B.N.S., was appointed Hon. Secretary of the 
Society in 1863, and subsequently held office as President of the 
Botanical Section, and President of the Society in 1893. An 
accomplished all-round scientist, he did not give much attention to 
Entomology. 
Mr. Philip H. Vaughan, of Redland, though for a good many 
years he has ceased to collect, has a very fine collection of 
*Note. — Mr. Reed was fond of joking, and on one occasion sent a record 
to a London journal of certain " Coleoptera captured under a dead lion in 
the Leigh Woods." The journal printed the list but did not mention the 
dead lion, to the grief of the recorder, the fact being that he had obtained 
a dead lion cub from the Clifton Zoo and planted it in the woods for the 
purpose of attracting carrion feeding beetles, such as the species of the 
genus vSilpha, Necrophorus, etc. 
