Captured the first Kent specimen of Paratillus cars Newman in a bus between Maidstone and Sevenoaks (EMM., 96, 1961, p.220). I am grateful to Jonathan Cooter who has provided me with the following note about him 'Lived for some time in Kent, retired to (or whilst at) Bishopbriggs, in the northern suburbs of Glasgow. Left his collection in its home-made cabinet to the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, in turn presented to the City Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove. Weak on small species, staphs etc., but contains some interesting species presumably obtained as duplicates from Massee.' Since the above was written Geoff Hancock has sent me a considerable amount of information about Gordon's collection including an account in the Glasgow Naturalist, 19(2), 1974, 143-144, by Ronald M. Dobson, of its donation to the Glasgow Natural History Society: 'The Gordon collection is the product of 54 years of study and contains approximately 1700 species of British Coleoptera... Representatives of about 700 of these species have been identified by the recognised authorities J.J.Walker, G.C.Champion, F.Balfour-Browne and A.M.Massee. Details of specimens thus authenticated are entered in a notebook kept with the collection [This still survives]. Species are arranged and named according to the Hudson Beare Catalogue of 1930 and 71 out of the 75 families recogised there are represented. Inevitably the coverage, though wide, is unequal. Amongst the important families, Carabidae, Dystiscidae, Coccinellidae, Scarabaeidae, Elateridae, Cantharidae and Chrysomelidae are well represented; Staphylinidae, Silphidae and Curculionidae are somewhat less so. 'Problem' families such as Scydmaenidae and Trichopterygidae are, as in most collections, poorly covered and this is also true of small species of Staphylinidae such as Atheta. The geographical origins of the collection are many and widespread. About one-sixth of the specimens came from the Clyde area and about as many from Kent. The remainder derived from various localities including Devon, the New Forest, Windsor, Delamere, Cannock Chase, Snowdon, Islay, Aviemore and Sutherland. All specimens have been carefully set and mounted on standardised cards and, in the great majority of instances, brief data on origin, collector and date are written on the underside of the cards. Precise details of locality and ecological relationships are, however, lacking... At present the collection is housed in its own cabinet, the handiwork of Mr Gordon himself, but in the course of time specimens may be transferred to fill lacunae in the more complete collections in the Department. All specimens transferred will, however, be given labels to indicate their origin and ownership'. A second article (19(6), 1979, 362) noted that the collection had been transferred from the Hunterian Museum to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Garth Foster has been through the water beetles and catalogued them in detail. Sample pages from his work indicate that the collection includes specimens collected by J.D.Leslie, E.J.Pearce, G.A.Hardy, D.Wotherspoon, A. Fergusson, J.J.Richardson, T.Edmonds and J.S.Sharpe. (MD 1/03)