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PSYCHE.
[September 1892-
aside for the present, because their false viewson the forms which have not been arrangement would only cause more examined by us. Meanwhile we recom- confusion than already exists. Farther mend that the possessors of types ex- on in our work we will express our amine them in the light of our system. JOHN VVITT RANDALL.
Dr. J. W. Randall who died at Rox-
bury, Mass., 25 January 1892 is known
to the present generation of entomolo-
gists as the author of two papers de-
scriptive of Coleoptera from Maine and
Massachusetts published more than fifty
years ago in the second volume of the
Boston journal of natural history.
John Witt Randall was born in Boston,
1'5 November 1813. His father Dr.
John Randall was an eminent physician
of Boston and his mother Elizabeth
Wells was the granddaughter of Samuel
Aclams the revolutionary patriot. He
graduated from Harvard College in
1834. One of his classmates says: "he
displiiyed a marked originality of char- acter. Though among us, he was not
wholly of us, but seemed to have
thoughts, pursuits, and aspirations to
which we were strangers. His tastes
developed in a scientific direction, en- tomology being the branch to which he
devoted himself. The college at that
time did little to encourage such pur-
suits, but he pursued the even tenor
of his way till he had made a very fine
collection of insects." Dr. Randall
studied medicine after his giaduation.
He was offered and accepted an appoint-
ment in zoology connected with the
Wilkes exploring expedition to the
South Seas ; owing however to the de-
lays which occurred before the expedi-
tion sailed he resigned.
Dr. Randall's scientific papers are as
follows :
I. Descriptions of new species of
coleopterous insects inhabiting the state of Maine. Bost. joum. nat. hist., Feb.
1838, v. 2, no. I, pp. 1-33.
2. Descriptions of new species of
coleopterous insects inhabiting the state of Massachusetts. Bost. journ. nat.
hist., Feh. 1838, v. 2, no. r, pp. 34-53. (See Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., Jan.
1875, v. 17, pp. 373-385.
On the spe-
cies of Coleoptera described by Mr. J.
W. Randall, by P. S. Sprague with
notes by E. P. Austin.)
3. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought
by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend
from the west coast of North America
and the Sandwich Islands with descrip-
tions of such species as are apparently
new, among which are included several
species of different localities previously existing in the collection of the Acad-
emy. Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phil.,
1839, v. 8, pt. I, pp. 106-147, pi. 3-7. A volume on the animals and plants of
Maine was prepared but not published.
His volume of poems entitled Conso-
lations of Solitude, Boston, 1856, 2d
edition 1857, was commended by J. H.
Abbott in the North American review.




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