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drawn and naturally coloured, that it is invaluable to those who, like 

 myself, desire their acquaintance without keeping a collection. Of 

 this work also, very few complete copies exist. Barrett's Lepidoptera, 

 was begun in 1893, and has continued to appear in monthly parts up 

 to the present time, but we are all looking forward with anxious expecta- 

 tion to those parts which shall contain the smaller moths, upon which 

 Mr. Barrett is acknowledged on all hands to be an authority. 



There is one branch of our subject which I cannot pass over — the 

 economic part. We are greatly indebted to our honorary member, 

 Miss Ormerod, for the prominent part she has taken in this work, and 

 for the painstaking care with which she has followed it out. Her 

 yearly reports began to appear in 1877, and have continued and grown 

 in size, interest, and usefulness, up to the present time, Tlie Manned of 

 Injurious Injects, by the same lady, first appeared in 1881, and 

 a second and enlarged edition in 1890. The very useful Guide to 

 Methods of Insect Life, first came out in 1884, and an enlarged edition 

 in 1892, under the title of A Text Book of Ai/ricultural Kntomolo(jy. 

 She has also liberally distributed many leaflets on various important 

 subjects — such as the "Warble Fly," "Turnip-flea Beetle," etc., 

 which must have done a great deal of good. 



At the same time, we would gratefully acknowledge what the 

 Board of Agriculture has done in this way, by the publication of 

 separate reports and leaflets, and by papers in the Journal of Ai/riculture, 

 the most accurate of which are those which have received Miss 

 Ormerod's revision. 



When I commenced the subject of this address my object was 

 briefly to allude to and record the principal entomological literature of 

 my time, but " of the making of books there is no end," and I find 

 that even when I confine my attention to the literature of Lepidoptera 

 alone, this task is too great to be completed in the time at our com- 

 mand. I must, therefore, ask your indulgence for omitting to mention 

 many well-known works and authors, whose names will at once occur to 

 you as worthy of record. 



But there is one author, Mr. Tutt, already mentioned in connection 

 with The Kntoinolof/ist\s Record, whose works I must not omit to 

 mention, not only for the evident care with which he deals with any 

 subject he undertakes, but also for the exhaustivenessof all his writings. 

 It seems wonderful how one man, having other daily duties to attend 

 to, can bring out book after book in the quick succession in which they 

 are given to us by Mr. Tutt. One of the first and most important of 

 these works is his Varieties of British Noctuae, begun, as already 

 stated, in the pages of the Entomolo/jist, but subsequently brought out 

 in four volumes. This of itself is a monument of patient labour. His 

 treatise on Melanism and Melanochroism in Lepidoptera is another evi- 

 dence that every corner and every available source has been ransacked 

 for all the information that could be given on this particular subject. 

 His ^otes on the Zi/t/aenidae bears the same stamp, while his popular 



books but time fails me ! It really seems hopeless for one 



to read the books as fast as he writes them, and if I attempt to keep 

 up with his activity my task will never be ended. 



To deal even briefly with his works alone, would extend this 

 address far beyond its prescribed limit. Since the task of further 

 reviewing, to any adequate extent, the vast field of entomological 

 literature would assume almost herculean proportions, with this short 

 reference to Mr. Tutt's unwearied activity, I may fittingly conclude. 



