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larly, whilst the exact and detailed accounts of the early stages of the 

 ova, the larvae, and the pupae, so much of which was the work of his 

 friend Dr. Chapman, are in all cases a most valuable addition to every 

 student. The amount of deeply interesting information gathered in 

 these chapters is very great, and of permanent value to all lovers of 

 the science. In closing we would especially refer to the infinite pains 

 and trouble he took in unravelling the tangled knot into which Poly- 

 oiiwiatiis coridon and its varieties had been tied up, the reference to the 

 original descriptions, types, and figures, meant an enormous amount 

 of time, but the result proved worth it all, for now we may consider 

 that species and its forms settled for good, and we should remember 

 that this is only one of a vast number of other similar instances. 



Deeply do we, his brother Editors, mourn his loss ; he was one 

 whom we could ill spare, and he is one who will be missed by our 

 fellow workers on the Continent almost as much as by us at home. — 

 19, Clarendon Eoad, Edgbaston. April, 1911. 



By the ReY. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. (Hon. 

 Secretary of the Entomological Society of London.) 



I first met Mr. Tutt near the summit of the Simplon Pass on 

 August 2nd, 1899, and had consequently known him for nearly twelve 

 years, yet I find it most difficult to write of him in any way which 

 does not savour of autobiography which no one wants, and if I seem 

 to err in this direction, my excuse must be that it is the only way in 

 which I can in any degree bring out those characteristics in him 

 which particularly struck me. First I will mention, because it was 

 the first of his wonderful gifts with which I came in contact, his 

 power of quietly making one ashamed of preventible ignorance or want 

 of thoroughness. In the light of later experience I am aware that his 

 own vast knowledge and thorough-going pursuit of facts, whether in 

 the field or the library, were at the root of this, and I have often 

 wondered how many other entomologists Avere indebted to him for 

 their first shunt off the lines of the amateur collecting of the middle 

 nineteenth century, in which so many of us had been brought up. On 

 the evening of the day when I first met him and Dr. Chapman they 

 asked me to come and see them at the Fletschhorn Hotel, (it was my 

 first visit to Simplon, and I was actually staying at the Poste !), and 

 in the course of conversation mention was made of Erebia flavofasciata. 

 "What's that?" I asked, "I have never heard of it." Mr. Tutt 

 slightly raised his eyebrows and did not explain. The action was not 

 very noticeable, the silence perhaps even less so, for Dr. Chapman en- 

 lightened my ignorance, but it was enough ; and any knowledge I 

 may have acquired beyond that of the most ignorant of "mere col- 

 lectors," and any little position I may have achieved in the entomo- 

 logical world, are due, wholly and solely, to the expression on Mr. 

 Tutt's face on that never-forgotten occasion. 



I had a good deal of correspondence with him during the next two 

 or three years, after I had become a regular contributor to the Ent. 

 Record, but the first literary affair in which I was in close touch with 

 him was the bringing out of my own book on the Alpine Butterflies, 

 and it was then that I became aware of two other of his characteristics. 

 The first was the ungrudging readiness with which he gave his time 



