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Lord Walslngham was the author of many papei*s, monofijraplis, and 

 faunistic works, mostly published in this country. His first and last 

 papers were published in this Magazine, of which he was one of the 

 Editors for nineteen yeai-s (1893-1912) : the fii-st (when he was the Hon. 

 Thomas de Grey), entitled, '* Early appearance of Argyrolepia duhri- 

 saiia " [Ent. Mo. Mag. 4. 37 (VII. 1867)], the last, " New French Micro- 

 lepidoptera " [Ent. Mo. Mag. 56. 9-10 (1. 1920)]. It is therefore fitting 

 that in this Magazine should appear his earliest entomological contribu- 

 tion extant. It is written on the inside of an envelope, dated September 

 28th, ISol, addressed b}' his step-mother to his father, and is as 

 follows : — 



''''/ have just found out that the catipillars hind feete 

 are different to itsfrount ones." 



Lord VValsingham was eight years and two months old when this 

 was written and must have been closely observant at a very early age — 

 the note is also interesting as showdng that he had become an entomologist 

 before going to school. 



Commencing as a British Lepidopterist, he was undoubtedly in- 

 fluenced in his early studies in the Tineina by Stainton, who induced 

 him to extend those studies beyond the British fauna. When preparing 

 his North American Tortricidae (published 1879) Lord Walsingham had 

 much correspondence with Professor C. H. Fernald, and being dissatified 

 with the Wilkinsonian s^^stem was easil}^ persuaded by Fernald to adopt 

 that of Heinemann — and described many genera founded on secondary 

 sexual characters. He was liberal-minded enough in his 65th year, in 

 association with Mr. August Busck and the writer, to repudiate all such 

 genera, and they were freely sacrificed in the " Biologia " ! Lord 

 Walsingham readily accepted the more exact methods of study and 

 classification which we owe to Mr. E. Meyrick, with a natural reservation 

 as to matters of detail, such as sequence and nomenclature. During 

 the last year of his life he worked much in the Museum, and on his 

 death-bed he was taking the greatest interest in entomological questions 

 and the collections. It was with the deepest sorrow that the writer bade 

 him farewell, and realised that an association of thirty-five years was 

 ended ! Lord Walsingham joined the Entomological Societ}-^ in 1866 and 

 was President 1889-90 and Vice-President 1882, 1888, 1891-2, 1894-5 ; 

 and, among other Societies, Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867 ; Koyal Agr. Soc. 1871 ; 

 Am. Ent. Soc. 1872 ; Br. Ornith. Union 1881 ; Linn. Soc. 1882 ; Ent. 

 Soc. France 1882 ; Ent. Ver. Berlin 1890 ; Nederl. Ent. Ver. 1892 ; Ent. 

 Soc. de Russie 1892 ; Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1892 ; Royal Society 1887, etc. 



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