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that A. lapponica should, as yet, have only been noticed in the extreme north- 

 western and extreme south-eastern counties of England. The Cumberland locality 

 for it has furnished a good many surprises in other Orders, chief among which 

 maybe mentioned the Noctuid, Ht/drilJa palustris, which does not occur elsewhere 

 away from the Fens.— F. H. Day, 6, Currock Terrace, Carlisle : March \^th, 1900. 



Argynnis Niohe, var. Eris, taken in England. — With reference to my note (page 

 41 ante),l have since learnt that my statement that the insect might have been taken 

 in Monk's Wood, Hunts, is incorrect. Mr. Waller did not collept there, but in 

 Monk Park Wood, which is about four miles south of Bury St. Edmund's. This 

 removes the uncertainty as to the locality of the capture, which was undoubtedly 

 in Suffolk.— Arthur Cottam, Eldercroft, Watford : March, 19u0. 



The late Sir James Paget and his brother as Naturalists. — It is probably not 

 generally known to the present generation that the late Sir James Paget, F.R.S., 

 the celebrated surgeon, was, when a young man, an enthusiast in Natural History. 

 With his brother, Charles John Paget (after whom Curtis named the Ti-ichopteron 

 Agrypnia Pagetana), he was joint author of the " Sketch of the Natural History of 

 Great Yarmouth and its neighbourhood," published in 1834, remarkable not only 

 for its extent and accuracy, but also for the youth of the two brothers, one of them 

 (C. J. Paget) being then only 22 years of age. This " Sketch" contains a list of 

 the local Fauna and Flora, very few branches in either being omitted. The list of 

 insects is especially full (for the period). It is true that James Paget was a botanist 

 rather than an entomologist, but there can be little doubt that he assisted his brother 

 in the collecting of insects. In the " Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society," vol. vi, pp. 74-76, Sir James gave a short but most interesting 

 memoir of his brother, who died in 1844, aged 33 years. In this he says that his 

 brother's zeal and industry might be estimated by the extent of the list of insects 

 given in the " Natural History of Yarmouth," which so far as regards that portion 

 was entirely written by him. — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling Rectory, Hastings : 

 March, 1900. 



[In the notice of the late Mr. R. H. Meade, published at p. 46 ante, allusion is 

 made to the life-long friendship that existed between him and Sir James Paget, who 

 as young men were fellow students. It is quite possible that this friendship had its 

 origin in community of taste for Natural History. — R. McL.]. 



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William Gabriel Blatch, F.E.S., was born in London in or about the year 1840, 

 and died at Knowle, near Birmingham, on February 25th, 1900. After a brief and 

 very meagre education he was sent to learn shoemaking ; finding this occupation 

 uncongenial, he became a pupil teacher in the British School in Colchester; he soon, 

 however, left this to take a situation in the Essex House Idiot Asylum, then superin- 

 tended by the late Mr. W. Millard. Mr. Millard became his staunch friend, and on 

 his advice he offered himself and was accepted as one of the first of the " Evangelists" 

 sent out into the rural districts of England by the late Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P. 

 He was first appointed to the village of Burton Joyce, Nottingham, and thence 

 removed to Netherbury in Dorsetshire, and subsequently to Gislingham in Suffolk : 



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