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"was to see him grow up a g-ood man. We have nothiug to look forward to 

 now."' Ill 1892 he settled at Greenhithe, a good position alike for entomology 

 and ornithology. In 1906, having reached the age of 65, he was retired on a 

 pension, and settled near Hereford. " I did so want to work in the West," he 

 writes in 1918. Here he found congenial friends, and attached himself to the 

 Woolhope Club, of which he was President in 1910. In 1912 he removed to 

 Ganarew, where he had in vain looked for a house in 1906. He had, as usual, 

 a definite object in settling there ; and he was rewarded by many interesting 

 captures, among them an extraordinary variety of G. c-album, " silvery-white 

 with small spots of blark, looking like the ghost of a c-album,^'' which is 

 worthy to rank with the black M. yalatea from Chattenden. which he acquired 

 in 1871. 



Just a year before his death he lost a companion of more than twenty 

 years. She was the daughter of an old friend, who had come to assist him 

 and had stayed on. 



Last July he went to St. Peter's Hospital, and underwent an operation, 

 which vfas merely preliminary. Pie never gained sufficient strength for the 

 main operation, but grew gradually weaker. When I vi.sited him at the end 

 of September, his mind and memory were as alert as ever. He spoke of old 

 times; and I looked through many of the drawers of his collection, while he 

 from his chair directed my attention to this or that specimen, the position of 

 which he seemed to know by heart. He said nothiug then about the disposal 

 of his collections ; but in 1909 he had written that he supposed they would be 

 sold when he died : " it is a pity, unless they could be sold en bloc. However, 

 many happy times have gone into them." And so, courageouslj- and patiently, 

 he waited for the end, which came on the last day of October. 



Dr. H. E. Durham contributed a sympathetic " appreciation *' to the 

 "Hereford Times" of November 19Lh ; and Mr. FrohaAvk sent to the 

 " Entomologist " for December a memoir written with tlie knowledge gained 

 during a friendship of forty years. I have some hope of being allowed to 

 reprint these notices in the form of a pamphlet, together with any additional 

 material that may be forthcoming. 



Superficially, he was an incessant and incorrigible jester, but, unlike some 

 jesters, he was never wearisome. No disappointment, no physical discomfort 

 could quell his propensity to see and express the ludicrous aspect of things. 

 But this frivolous and diverting manner was the envelope of many sterling- 

 qualities. Mr. Frohawk says, " he was a man of extraordinary courage, 

 determination, and reliability. His word was the acme of accuracy and 

 truth." He was the most loyal of friends ; full of tenderness and sympathy, 

 he longed to find those qualities in others. He disliked slovenliness, being 

 incapable of it himself, for he was the most scholarly of naturalists". 



Earn does not seem to have communicated much of his knowledge other- 

 wise than orally. I find in this Magazine only seven notes by him between 

 1873 and 1906. To the " Entomologist " his contributions were more numerous, 

 viz., eighteen, spread over forty-eight years, 1868 to 1916. He occasionally 

 exhibited insects at meetings of tlie Entomological Society and of the South 

 London Entomolosical Societv. I lind six notes bv him about birds in the 



