116 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



worth, and the value of his services to Entomology in many of its 

 most important aspects. As regards experimental work, which is the 

 only department on which I have any special knowledge, I do not 

 think he did much of it himself. But at an early period he fully 

 recognised its value, gave it much encouragement, assisted very 

 efficiently in providing material for it, and he entirely appreciated its; 

 results. 



The Avide range of his study, of the biological as well as the^ 

 sj^stematic side of Entomology, and the comprehensive thorough- 

 ness and minuteness of his observation, were extraordinary ; it 

 would have been a marvel past belief if the detail of experimental 

 work could have been added. But the results of his field studies and 

 researches afforded a continual stimulus to experiment, and, it may be 

 said, a useful corrective also. One looked forward to the monthly 

 appearance of the Entomoloi/ist's Record and Journal of Variation, with, 

 the certainty of finding in it something that was new in the way of 

 knowledge. And in this magazine, and perhaps still more in some of 

 his other works, such as the chapters of a general character in his 

 elaborate, and, alas ! unfinished work on the British Lepidoptera, one 

 never failed to find much that threw light on questions interesting to- 

 all entomologists. He was pre-eminently a lepidopterist, but one who 

 was an authority on those of all Europe, and who was highly appreciated 

 as such throughout the world. 



Mr. Tutt was tenacious of his opinions, but usually with very 

 sufficient grounds for being so, and he always fairly appreciated adverse 

 argument. The personal element was a strong one with him, and 

 this had its disadvantages, though it lent an interest to his writings,, 

 to his descriptive narratives, as well as to his controversies, which 

 certainly absolved them from dulness. 



It is sad that in the plenitude of his powers, and at the very moment 

 of their full recognition, he should have been struck down by fatal 

 illness. At the age of 62, one might have hoped for him many years 

 more, during which Science could not have failed to benefit in a great 

 and increasing degree from his labours. The amount of work he got 

 through in his, comparatively speaking, brief life, while all the time 

 carrying on with efficiency the exacting duties of the head mastership 

 of one of the largest of the London County Council Schools, is amazing, 

 and cut short as it has been, it will stand as an impressive monument 

 to his abilities. — 14, Clifton Terrace, Brighton. March, 1911. 



By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



If ever a man lived the strenuous life, that man was 

 James William Tutt. I first made his acquaintance in the early 

 days of the Entomolor/ist's Record, and a common interest in the study 

 of the western palfearctic butterflies, which he was also commencing 

 in earnest about then, helped to cement our entomological friendship,, 

 which lasted unbroken to the day of his death. 



Knowing the nature of his professional work, the keen enthusiasm 

 displayed for it, and the way in which he threw himself heart and 

 soul into the exacting duties of a schoolmaster, I never ceased to 

 marvel at the unflagging energy of mind, as well as body, which left 



