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of C. lutea, L., in the late Mr. Alfred Beaumont's collection which was taken near 

 Bury St. Edmunds some fifty years ago by the Rev. A. H. Wratislaw ; Paget found 

 the larvse of C. .vj/^warMw, Fab., commonly on birch in Lound Wood before 183 1 : 

 and in 1900 Mr E. J. G. Sparke bred C. femorata from a cocoon which he dug at 

 the base of a tree near Bury St. Edmunds.— Claude Mokley, The Hill House, 

 Monks Soham, Suffolk : August, 19o5. 



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Thomas William Daltri/, M.A., F.L.S.—We much regret to have to record 

 the death of the Rev. T. W. Daltry, which event occurred so long ago as June 4th, 

 1904. Born at Hull on June 7th, 1832, he was educated at Sedbergh Grammar 

 School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1855 he was appointed to his first 

 curacy at Petworth, subsequently becoming curate to his father at Madeley, 

 Staffordshire, in 1861. This curacy he held for eighteen years, when, on the death 

 of his father, the Rev. J. W. Daltry, who had been vicar of the parish for forty-six 

 years, he was, on the practically unanimous requisition of the parishioner?, appointed 

 vicar, and held the living for twenty-five years, making a total of forty-three years 

 as curate and vicar, and seventy-one years for the father and son together. For 

 many years he was well known as an ardent Lepidopterist, and had an intimate 

 knowledge of our native species. He almost always spent his summer holidays 

 collecting in one or other of our well-known entomological localitie.=, and it was the 

 privilege of the writer to join him on many of these outings, notably in the New 

 Forest, Sherwood Forest, Wicken Fen, Abbot's Wood, Barnwell Wold, &e., where 

 his geniality and enthusiasm were most exhilarating. But it was as Secretary of 

 the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club that Daltry was best and most 

 widely known. The Club was founded in 1865, and on March 2.Srd, 1866, Daltry 

 was appointed its Secretary, an office which he held continuously up to the time of 

 his death, a period of thirty-eight years, probably the longest time in which an 

 honorary secretaryship of any scientific society was ever held by one person. His 

 interest in the Club was unbounded, and it is safe to say that its great success was 

 attributable to his devotion and business-like management. He was President of 

 the Club for three years (in 1879, 1899, and 1900), but was not allowed to relinquish 

 the secretaryship even during the years of his presidency. He was also Chairman 

 of the Entomological section of the Club from its foundation to his death. The 

 appreciation of his work was shown in the fact that in 1893 he had the gratification 

 of being the first to receive the tribute of honour which the Club had to bestow 

 upon its Members in the Garner Memorial Silver Medal. His most important 

 published Entomological work was probably the " List of the Lepidoptera of North 

 Staffordshire," but many notes on Lepidoptera from his pen appeared in the 

 Transactions of the North Staffordshire Club, as well as in the Entomological 

 journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1875, and of the 

 Entomological Society of London in 1887. — G. T. P. 



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