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sequeiitly at St Mark's Training College, Chelsea, in preparation for the 

 scholastic profession. Passing out of this College witli gi-eat distinction in 

 1877, we find him rising steadily in his adopted career, and occupying important 

 posts in London schools, until, within less than a year of his vmtiinely death, he 

 received the responsible appointment of Head Master of the New Higher Grade 

 Central School at Morpeth Street, E. 



As Mr. Tutt informs us in his Vice-Presidential Address to the City of 

 London Entomological Society (published in the Entomologist's Record, vol. vi, 

 pp. 59, et scq.), he began the study of Lepidoptera in early boyhood, and at that 

 time he had the great good fortune to reside within easy walking distance of 

 such splendid collecting-grounds — as they were then — as Chattenden Roughs, 

 the Cuxton and Hailing Downs, Cobham Park, and the Medway and Thames 

 marshes. His meeting, we believe in 1881, at the place first named, with the 

 late Mr. G. Coverdale, a young Lepidopterist of extraordinary energy and 

 ability, whose premature death soon afterwards was a very serious loss to 

 Entomology, may be said to have determined the direction of Mr. Tutt's career 

 as a scientific worker. From about that time, while he communicated occasional 

 notes to oiu" own pages, his articles - not seldom of a highly controversial 

 character, but full of power and sviggestion — in the "Entomologist," became 

 quite a feature of that Magazine. Early in the year 1890, when it was thought 

 that the " Entomologist " was to be largely given over to descriptions of exotic 

 insects, he conceived the idea of a new mid-monthly magazine specially devoted 

 to the British insect-fauna, and the " Entomologist's Record and Journal of 

 Variation," was conducted by liim up to the time of his decease. There is no 

 doubt that the appearance of this periodical, imbued throughout as it was witli 

 the strenuoiis personality of its Editor, gave a very marked stimulus to the 

 scientific study of our native Lejndoptera ; and when, in more recent years, 

 Mr. Tutt's summer holidays were spent for the most part on the Continent, his 

 attractive notes on the rich and most interesting Alpine insect-fauna were the 

 means of making the " Record " the chief repository of the work of the now 

 numerous students of European Lepidoptera in oiir own coiintry. 



We can only allude very briefly to a few of the results of Mr. Tutt's 

 enormous industry in Entomological science. Without doubt his monument will 

 be the gi-eat unfinished work on " British Lepidoptera," of which ten volumes, 

 two of which are devoted to the Butterflies, have up to the present been issued, 

 and have been duly noticed in oiu- pages as they have appeared. Another 

 volmne, dealing with the remainder of the Lyctenid butterflies, was left by him 

 in an advanced stage, and its publication may ere long be looked for. AVe 

 sincerely trust also that the large amoiint of material accumulated by him for 

 subsequent volumes of this great work will in the near future be made avail- 

 able by his literary executors. The " British Noctuae and their Varieties," and 

 the " Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist," both most valuable contri- 

 butions to the subjects on which they treat, represent an enormous amount of 

 concentrated effort and study, and his books " in lighter vein," notably the 

 " Rambles in xUpine Valleys " exhibit no small literary skill and power of 

 graphic description. 



