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for their intermediate characters. In summer there were a number 

 of aquaria in the garden and no pains were spared to rear gold fish 

 of fantastic forms, and as many other species as would survive in 

 so confined an area as a big glass jar or a tank. 



From this interesting home many excursions were made to Bronx 

 Park, Fort Lee and other nearby places in New Jersey, to Staten 

 Island and to Long Island, in search of specimens. Sometimes it 

 was for insects, but often for plants and fish for the aquaria, in fact 

 for anything in nature that appeared interesting and unusual. 



Many excursions were made to collect material in aid of his 

 work, for Mr. Joutel was one of the most skillful natural history 

 artists in America, and his knowledge of insects and their habits was 

 a great asset in connection with his artistic work. His illustrations 

 are well known. They will be found in some of Dr. Alpheus S. 

 Packard's works, such as his Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of 

 North America, in the reports of Dr. Ephraim P. Felt, state ento- 

 mologist of New York; in some of the reports of the New Jersey 

 state entomologist, in the Bulletins of the American Museum of 

 Natural History and in many other publications devoted to entomol- 

 ogy. Mr. Joutel was an illustrator for Harper and Brothers for a 

 number of years, but when able, relinquished his work as a general 

 illustrator and devoted himself to natural history subjects. This 

 gave him a chance to investigate ; to go afield in connection with his 

 work, and before ill health prevented, he was active in rearing many 

 kinds of insects, as well as fish, frogs, etc. He even raised some 

 land or box turtles in his little garden. Facts of interest in con- 

 nection with his entomological investigations were often presented at 

 the meetings of the New York Entomological Society up to the year 

 1910. At the meeting of April 20, 1897, he exhibited about fifty 

 species of beetles, mostly Longicorns that had been bred by him, and 

 throughout the early published proceedings of the Society there is 

 much information contributed by Mr. Joutel. 



In the summer of 1903 Mr. Joutel was ill and later had pneu- 

 monia. Though he seemed at the time to recover from this attack, 

 his illness gradually developed into consumption, but at his age the 

 progress of the disease was not very rapid. No one was a better 

 judge of his condition than he, not even the several doctors that 

 examined him, and his shrewd observations on the matter, as indeed 



