120 THE entomologist's record. 



By p. A. H. Muschamp, F.E.S. 



I cannot call myself an old friend of J. W. Tiitt's for our acquaintance 

 only dates back to 1902, but friendship cannot be measured by hours, 

 and the place that he has filled in my life since 1903 is so large, that 

 I may safely number myself amongst those whom his death hurts the 

 most cruelly. 



" Tatt as I knew him " is not perhaps the same man as the Tutt 

 of most of his friends. Since I first met him, we have spent a certain 

 part of all our summer holidays together here in Switzerland, and I 

 have only once had the pleasure of spending a few hours with him in 

 London. .1/// friend was the never tiring wielder of the green bag, 

 the accurate observer, the painstaking field naturalist ; the man who 

 after spending several days Avith me on the Stiifa marshes gathering 

 in and taking notes about C. tt/phon, decided that he must give up 

 accompanying me to spend twenty-four hours in the next canton on 

 his way to the Engadine, because he had not been able to grasp 

 properly, exactly what were the first movements made by the butterfly 

 when starting ofit' on its flight, and had to satisfy himself as to how the 

 ■curious initial jerk was managed ; the man who started off with me 

 for a few hours work with the Burnets and suddenly found out, when 

 the sun had set, that he had taken no refreshments since early 

 breakfast. 



Tutt Avas a man who took so much interest in his subject, put so 

 much of his own vitality into it when he talked about it, that he 

 charmed all who had the privilege of conversing with him. I 

 remember one day that we were talking about C. rutilns with one of 

 my pupils, who cared nothing about butterflies, but on Avhose father's 

 property riitilim was to be found. Tutt explained the why and the 

 Avherefore of this sister of cUspars so clearly and so simply, that my 

 young friend became quite enthusiastic and told me afterwards that 

 he quite understood why people devote their lives to natural history, a 

 thing that he, a future engineer, had always laughed at till then. 

 Tutt's contagious enthusiasm put everyone with whom he came in 

 touch on the "qui vive." He first awakened us to the fact that there 

 was plenty of useful work to be done, and then made us feel that we 

 were capable of doing a part of that work ourselves. He was ready to 

 give all the help he could to any beginner, and found time to keep up 

 a voluminous correspondence with all those whom he had inspired 

 with a love for work. He ultimately gave all the credit for the work 

 which he himself had inspired to the man who had simply caught a 

 •little of his own genial enthusiasm. The Geneva lepidopterists have 

 ahvays had in him, their honorary member, a firm friend, and his 

 appreciation of the work they are doing has been for each and all of 

 them a great incentive to honest labour. We Swiss naturalists fully 

 appreciate what a gap has been made in the ranksofBritish entomologists. 

 Tutt and Oberthiir have long been, in our opinion, the two great 

 authorities on Lepidoptera. It will be hard indeed to find any one 

 man like our dear friend Tutt, Avho will combine the genius for hard 

 Avork Avith the ability of extracting work from others. His influence 

 for good has been great. What better epitaph can any man hope 

 for? — Institute Stiifa, Switzerland. Fehruanj 23/v/, 1911. 



