OHAELES EOBEET DAE WIN, 



OX the 19th of April went to his rest one whose intellect 

 has revolutionised science and scientific thought, and 

 who, as a naturalist, has never been surpassed, and probably 

 never equalled. 



Brilliant in conception, indefatigable in collecting facts, most 

 cautious in elaborating the theories with which his name will 

 ever be associated, there is no point in which the character 

 of Charles Darwin can be considered without eliciting the 

 most profound admiration. 



It is unnecessary here to dilate on a subject regarding which 

 all the civilised nations have united in testifying their apprecia- 

 tion. It is merely our duty to lay most humbly one stone on 

 his cairn. He has gone from among us, but his influence will 

 endure for all time. 



ZOOLOGY, 







RY 



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THE LEP1D0PTEEA OF ORKNEY, SHETLAND, A™*£ 

 THE OUTEE HEBEIDES. 



By F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 



THAT the greater number of British naturalists who devote 

 any attention to insects should confine themselves to one 

 ordeY only, and ignore everything but what is lepidopterous, is 

 a fact that has often been deplored; and though in very many 

 respects this restriction of attention to butterflies and moths 

 only is open to just condemnation, still it is not altogether 

 without its redeeming features. For in consequence of the 

 great demand for lepidoptera, it is worth the while of profes- 

 sional collectors — those who make a livelihood by collecting 



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