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his death, viz., that he was a deep and earnest thinker. The pages of 

 the early years of the Ilecord gave one a very fair idea of the character 

 of the man, who was the moving spirit and editor of the periodical 

 that was then in its infancy, but, however much one may read about 

 and be told about a person, it is never the same thing as meeting him. 

 I found in Tutt a man of rather reserved conversation and everything 

 that he did say was well considered. In conversation he was vastly 

 diiierent to what he was when he was speaking publicly at a meeting. 

 He then unbridled himself, and if the subject was entomology (which 

 it was pretty certain to be) he would talk at considerable length and 

 attack the subject, if it was one of his own, with complete confidence, 

 having all his facts ready and at his finger tips. It was always a 

 pleasure to see him at the meetings and to hear what he had to say, 

 for he was a most ready speaker. If a discussion was raised, he usually 

 listened attentively till near the end, when he would summarise the 

 facts already brought forward, and then not infrequently add his own 

 fresh quota with a general review of the whole matter raised. In 

 latter years, if the subject was European Butterflies, Tutt's opinion was 

 more or less accepted as final. 



It is rather curious that as long ago as 1898 Tutt had evidently 

 lost his keenness for British field work. On January 14th of that 

 year, he joined a small party of us to Buddon Wood, in the north- 

 western part of the county of Leicestershire. Although most of us 

 were keen on obtaining something in the way of specimens, Tutt only 

 looked on, and admitted that he was afraid he was rapidly becoming a 

 bookworm. How true this was we have all seen in the years that 

 have followed. It is as a writer of books and a speaker at entomo- 

 logical meetings that he has been known to us chiefly in the past 

 fourteen years. It was not my fortune to ever collect with Tutt on 

 the continent, where what little collecting he did in his summer 

 vacation was indulged in. But from conversation on several occasions, 

 he appeared to be quite enthusiastic over the more enchanting scenery 

 of the Alps, and its accompanying abundance of insect life, than is to 

 be found in our own country. He was doubtless proud of the know- 

 ledge he had gained of the European butterflies, and not less so of 

 having visited very many of their haunts. It seems rather strange 

 that he should have persevered with his tremendous undertaking, the 

 British Lepidoptera, when his collecting haunts of late years, and the 

 insects he loved best of all, were not of these Islands. It shows the 

 strength of mind of the man to have continued what he evidently 

 considered was a duty. He had begun the work, and as long as he 

 lived he intended to carry it through. As was to be expected of 

 such a man for thoroughness, he could not stand the dilettante ones, 

 and was never at his ease unless he could converse with spirits more 

 in keeping with his own. It was rather remarkable in a man of 

 Tutt's capacity, that he never properly appreciated the entomological 

 work done by others unless it was of his own kind, which was 

 essentially biological. The classification of the lepidoptera by imaginal 

 characters, such as by the neuration, he was entirely out of sympathy 

 with, and it is scarcely too much to say that he never grasped the 

 subject in the way one would have expected him to. Similarly with 

 the study of " Mimicry," he was out of sympathy with the greater part 

 of the work done and the theories advanced. In this subject, however, 



