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" Remarks on the Butterflies of Switzerland " in the third 

 volume of the ' Zoologist/ he settled down at Oatlands Park 

 in Surrey, having purchased some twelve acres of land and 

 Ijuilt thereon a house, surrounded by splendid cedars and 

 oaks, in which he was always glad to receive those interested 

 in his favourite subjects. During the last thirty years o£ 

 his life Hewitson devoted himself specially to Entomology, 

 one of the results being the publication (1852-1877) of his 

 ' IllustratioDS of Exotic Butterflies/ He drew on stone all 

 the figures of his Lepidoptera with minutest accuracy, and 

 also himself coloured them. He w^as a Member of several 

 learned bodies, including the Entomological, Zoological, and 

 Linnean Societies, and a valued friend of Alfred Newton, 

 Wolley, Yarrell, and other Naturalists in the south of 

 England. 



Hewitson died at Oatlands Park on May 28th, 1878, his 

 wife, whom he married in 1853, having predeceased him iu 

 1854. Though wiry, he w^as of a nervous temperament and 

 at times hypochondriacal owing to dyspepsia, while occasional 

 fainting fits also weakened his constitution. 



His estate at Oatlands Park was bestowed upon his lifelong- 

 friend John Hancock, while, besides bequests to charities and 

 so forth, he left his entire collection of Butterflies to the 

 British Museum, and, failing the acceptance of his con- 

 ditions, to the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



A full list of Hewitson^s works will be found in the Natural 

 History Transactions of that Society (vol. vii. pp. 232-235) 

 at the conclusion of an obituary notice by Dr. Embleton, 

 from which (by kind permission of the Council) the present 

 account has been extracted. 



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