TUTT AS I KNEW HIM. IIS 



contribute to the Kntoniolu(/ist — but afterwards issued in book form. 

 To me he was rather a personal friend than an Entomological 

 acquaintance. By those who knew him thus, the kindness of his heart 

 and the geniality of his disposition were best understood. He wa& 

 emphatically a "working-man." Speaking personally, I may say 

 that I have repeatedly begged him to work less, and rest more. That 

 he was attempting too much, he was well aware, but he always said, 

 that rest meant death. I have often run over to see him when laid 

 up, and found the same restless spirit worrying to be at work again. 

 This was the characteristic of the man. I was inexpressibly touched 

 when in November last, lying upon my sick bed, and barely able to 

 dictate messages of encouragement and hope ; he, from what proved 

 to be his death-bed, wrote in as firm a hand as ever, his messages of 

 encouragement to me. Others, better qualified than I, will put on 

 record the keenness of his eye, the decision of his judgment, and those 

 other points which mark him out as a leader amongst Entomologists. 

 — Mucking, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. March, 1911. 



By the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



If on first acquaintance my impression of the late Mr. Tutt was 

 less favourable than subsequently, this was certainly due to that irre- 

 pressible enthusiasm and eagerness which dominated his character and 

 rapidly inspired admiration and respect in kindred spirits. He was in 

 every way too genuine and keen to waste any time in preliminary 

 approaches to confidence, but his true devotion to scientific research, 

 accompanied as it was by an earnest sympathy with the efforts of 

 other workers, could not fail to command the regard and respect of his 

 fellows, and to kindle in them a generous reciprocity. His industry 

 and perseverance seemed to me almost phenomenal. He certainly 

 turned to good account such opportunities of collecting as he was able 

 to snatch from other work, and I was indebted to him for many 

 interesting European Micro-lepidoptera, now in the British Museum, 

 notably the second known specimen of Tischeria aurifroniella, Rgt.> 

 and a new species of Megacraspedus [tutti, Wlsm.). 



His lamented death deprives us of an earnest, careful, and ardent 

 colleague, whom I was always glad to meet, and with whom I greatly 

 enjoyed the friendly discussion of any questions that arose incidentally 

 out of our mutual interest in the study to which he had so con- 

 spicuously and successfully devoted his time and energies. — Villa Sans 

 Souci, Monte Carlo. February 26</(, 1911. 



By W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. (President of the South London 

 Entomological Society.) 



Tutt dead and gone ! It hardly seems true to us who have known 

 him alike in our work and our play through fourteen years. It was 

 at a Leicester (where I was stationed) entomological meeting, that I 

 first met Tutt personally in 1897. I had corresponded previously, but 

 had not met the man face to face till the autumn of the year mentioned. 

 They say that first impressions are very often misleading, but my 

 first impression of the late Mr. Tutt was the one that I retained till 



