108 THE entomologist's kecord. 



been in the full zenith of his mental powers. He was a man who 

 could not brook inaccuracy of observation and had no sympathy with 

 the mere collector. Well do I remember his first entry into the 

 Entomological Society in the latter half of the eighties. In 1885 the 

 Eoyal Charter of Incorporation was received and read at the first 

 meeting I attended, and after the reading of it I well remember signing 

 my name in the obligation book, and being welcomed by the usual 

 "hand shake" as the first Fellow to be received into the Society. 

 Mr. Tutt followed the next year, and he very soon made his presence 

 known ; the meetings were then very sedate and it took the older 

 Fellows some time to accommodate themselves to the keen remarks of 

 the new comer, even though the remarks were always the outcome of 

 his own personal observations. At that time he confined himself to British 

 Entomology, but his power of deduction and analogy very soon made 

 itself felt, even though his experience was then limited to the British 

 Isles. His observations at the Society's meetings were always to the 

 point, though sometimes resented and sharply debated, yet I laelieve it 

 was more the direct incisive manner in which he presented his argu- 

 ments and statements, that created a feeling of opposition in those 

 early days, than the facts and statements themselves, but even then it 

 was only the character of the man showing itself. He was essentially 

 a lover of truth, a lie or a mis-statement were to him really abhorrent, 

 and as he had no sympathy with an inaccurate observation, it followed, 

 therefore, that he had no hesitation in condemning such inaccuracies 

 in the severest terms, perhaps at times with a severity that was really 

 unnecessary, but we must always remember that at the back of it all 

 lay an inherent desire for truth, and an inherent desire for the real 

 advancement of science in general, and of entomological knowledge in 

 particular. At that time I came but little into personal contact with 

 him, it being only within the last four or five years that I have been 

 in close touch with him, but during these latter years I learned to 

 appreciate and esteem him as a friend. Time mellows and softens ; 

 suffering and illness do so likewise even to a greater extent, and our 

 friend had his share, if not more than his share of the latter, which, 

 without doubt, had a marked effect on him during recent years. Over 

 and over again have I seen him gentle as a child dealing with an adverse 

 opinion, in a manner wholly different from the way he would have 

 handled it ten or fifteen years ago. It was quite refreshing after I 

 had been criticising some of his work (for instance I strongly criticised 

 his raising so many new genera for our common Plebeiidje) it was 

 refreshing to hear him say " I want to get a sound basis from which 

 we may start afresh. Staudinger has made so many errors in the 

 the determination of species cxnd varieties that we must refer back to 

 original descriptions and types, to try and rectify them, and in doing 

 this I may probably raise genera for species where something strikes 

 me as peculiar to that species, then when you are revising the whole 

 group you will naturally go more into detail than I want to do, you 

 will re-sort many species, sink my proposed genera where necessary, 

 but I shall have given you a basis to start from, that was not in 

 existence previous to our collaboration in these last volumes." 



His one idea was to help to focus our present information vip to a 

 point, where our vision would be quite clear, where, in the landscape 

 before us, all our known facts would stand out in clear and due 



