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A very large assemblage of (mostly exotic) beetles, including tbe majority 
the Curculiomdcn described by Dr. Imboff, has been acquired by Andreas Bisclioff. 
Ehinger, of Basle, to whose liberality and studiously neat collection the former 
more than one occasion, owed the means of continuing his works. 
A second general collection has been deposited in the Public Museum at BasI 
and I would here exjDress my hope that every Swiss specimen belonging to it may be 
carefully preserved, if possible, with Dr. ImhoflF's own labels, to enable workers tol 
use the insects as types, as it would be rather a round-about way to have to get 
information on that head from America. 
The library of Dr. Imhoff" has been dispersed.— Albekt Muller, Penge, S.E., 
April, 1869. 
The late Mr. Edward Willia^n John Hopley. — This gentleman, whose name will 
be familiar to our readers, died at his residence. No. 14, South Bank, Regent's Park, 
London, on the 30th April, at the age of 53. Intended by his friends to follow the 
profession of medicine, Mr. Hopley wa«, in early life, articled to a surgeon at Brighton; 
but he soon relinquished that profession for the, to him, more congenial one of an artist, 
in the exercise of which he had attained no small degree of celebrity, and he was 
always ready to acknowledge the assistance to his art-career which his early anatomical 
studies had afforded him. For many years he had been an assiduous collector of 
British Lepidoptera, and turned his attention especially to the subject of variation, om 
which he largely experimented, by subjecting certain larvse to forced diet and unusual: 
conditions. As our pages will show, he was a genial writer and minute observer. And 
he will long be remembered by a large circle of friends for his unvarying courtesy ; an 
evening spent with him in his studio, surrounded by a combination of the beautiful 
works of art and nature, was an event not likely to be soon forgotten by the numerousi 
entomologists who enjoyed that privilege. About two years since, Mr. Hopley wa* 
attacked by an insidious renal disease, of a kind that has hitherto baffled all medical 
skill, and though he retained his habitual happiness of disposition up to the last, he 
knew that, sooner or later, he must succumb to its ravages ; yet only a short time 
before his death he had occupied himself with a re-arrangement of his collection in a 
new cabinet, scarcely anticipating apparently that the end was so near. One or two 
of his most beautiful pictures received the artist's finishing touches only a few days 
previously to his demise. 
The Insect World, being a popular account of the Orders of Insects ; by Louis 
FiGUiER ; second edition, revised and corrected by E. W. Janson. London: 
Chapman & Hall, 1869. 
Those who desii-e a popular treatise on general Entomology, profusely illus- 
trated, cannot do better than supply themselves with this English translation of 
Figuier's " L'Insecte." The writer belongs to the class of " book-makers " with 
whom we have little sympathy, yet a careful compilation from trustworthy sources 
is often better than original works by superficial observers, such as we too fre- 
quently see ; and M. Piguier appears to have had good advisers as to the books he 
should consult. One portion, at least, of the English translation is likely to be free 
from striking errors, as the second edition has been entrusted to a gentleman 
