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him fresh after a full day with his boys, to take up and devote his 

 entire thoughts and attention to the entomological problem of the 

 moment. Gifted with a splendid memory, and with the critical faculty 

 developed in a high degree, no task seemed too arduous for him; 

 indeed, the more difficult, the more controversial, the more tangled 

 the skein he set himself to unravel, the happier he seemed to be. Yet 

 the naturalist was never subservient to the pedagogue; and through 

 all his work, as I saw it developed during eighteen years, he main- 

 tained a freshness and directness of approach almost as inspiring as 

 the courage which carried him successfully through his literary work, 

 the scientific quality of which was equal to its quantity. 



During the last two years of his life, which were also to be the last 

 two years of my service as a Secretary of the Entomological Society of 

 London, another side of his character was revealed to me in the course 

 of reorganising our finances. In the publication of his many books, 

 Tutt had achieved a thorough knowledge of printing, and when we 

 were asked to make certain changes in our methods Avith a view to 

 economy, I found him an invaluable colleague ; full of resource, and 

 fertile of suggestion, the outcome of that experience which is as 

 essential to success from the commercial point of view as an ability 

 to express ideas in plain English. He literally revelled in the details 

 of the composing room ; and the items of " estimates " and "accounts 

 rendered," presented no such labyrinthine obscurities but he invariably 

 found the right way out. 



I have heard Tutt described as a combative man. I have no doubt 

 that he was; a rapid thinker is not always tolerant of the slower kind. 

 But personally, while I was brought much into contact with him in 

 his entomological capacity, and knew him also as a friend, and the 

 friend of many, I feel sure that his indiscretions were never ''stretched," 

 and that personal antipathies were foreign to his nature. Brought up 

 in a school where most of the fighting is done with the gloves off, he 

 hardly realised the effect of his dialectic blows upon persons accustomed 

 to less trenchant attack. When he met his match, he would be the 

 first to acknowledge the skill of antagonists, hoAvever distasteful their 

 cause or their methods ; and I never knew him harbour the least 

 feeling against any such, when the fight was done. — Harrow Weald. 

 March, 1911. 



By G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



I gladly respond to the Editorial Secretary's invitation to write 

 a few lines on the late Mr. J. W. Tutt, because probably very few of 

 the present day lepidopterists knew him for so long a time as T did. 

 It is now well on to forty years since I first casually met him in 

 Chattenden Woods, near his home at Strood, Avhen he was a mere boy, 

 and although I lost sight of him for some time afterwards, he 

 repeatedly reminded me in after years of that meeting, and told me 

 how valuable had been to him some of the hints I then gave him. 

 Since that little talk in the wood, Ave have done considerable outdoor 

 work together at Wicken, Deal, etc., and a feAV years ago, as my guest 

 for a few days, Ave Avent OA-er, to his great delight, some of our 

 Yorkshire collecting grounds. 



As we all knoAV, Avhether in the field or in the ^tudy, Tutt was 



