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latterly he appeared to have had his interest thoroughly aroused. At 

 a recent meeting of the Entomological Society, when I was showing 

 some of the wonderful Syntomid moths of the genus Pseudoaphex, 

 which I had taken in Brazil with their models, the wasps, he became 

 quite enthusiastic upon these striking instances of mimicry, and what 

 was most rare for Tutt to do, he spoke at some length not (ujaimt the 

 theories of mimicry, but for them. I believe I am right in saying that 

 this was the last entomological meeting that poor Tutt ever attended. 

 None of us could ever have dreamed that that was to be the last 

 occasion when we should hear the great entomologist speak. — 

 Caracas, Ditton Hill, Surbiton. April 10th, 1911. 



By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



It must have been in the late " Seventies." I had spent the latter 

 half of a glorious summer day in Chabtenden Roughs, had filled 

 perhaps some three score boxes, no doubt was feeling some pride at 

 my success and was preparing to make my way home as the shades of 

 night were falling, when I met a youth, a stranger. He was in the 

 act of transferring pill-boxes from his pockets to a good sized 

 portmanteau, which was then practically full of them, and which he 

 -assured me represented only his day's captures. It was, I suppose, 

 some disparaging remark of mine that drew the reply, " It's no use 

 taking one or two specimens of a species, if you want to know anything 

 about it, and why as to that, I shall be up early to-morrow morning 

 and have them all set before night." That was Tutt in his early 

 entomological days, that was but a sample of the energy that 

 characterized his doings throughout his all too brief life. It was not 

 until some years later, in fact in 1886, when he joined the South 

 London Society, that I saw much of him and then perhaps, our views 

 were hardly in accord, a certain crude assertiveness in his manner was 

 hardly conducive to close friendship. Yet, as time wore on and we 

 became better acquainted, one could not resist his strong personality, 

 his ready grasp of that which mattered ; thus appreciation led to 

 friendship, and as I look back over the years that have passed, many 

 and pleasant are the recollections of him that come to my mind. We 

 all have faults but few of us are as conscious of our own as he was of 

 his. Well do I remember a conversation I had with him not very 

 long ago, it seems but yesterday. We were returning from some 

 function, I believe it was from a meeting of the Entomological Club, 

 where our conversation turned to a topic in which we were mutually 

 interested, and as to which his views were without doubt right, but 

 where he had met rather strong opposition, as I thought, from the 

 way he had put them, and I ventured to say so. " Yes," he said, " I 

 know I am often brutal in the way I put things but I can't help it, 

 and you know I am right." Needless to say he carried his way in the 

 end to the satisfaction of all concerned, for they also saw that he was 

 right. Thus did I know Tutt in his later years ; and how I miss 

 him ! — Lewisham. March, 1911. 



By F. Merrifield, F.E.S. 



I have been asked to write a few words with reference to the late 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt. Others, better qualified, will bear testimony to his 



