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Here, too, few men have shown by their fruits that they were 

 possessed of a laro;er store of contagious enthusiasm than James 

 William Tutt. 



Many years ago an eminent entomologist remarked to me that in 

 an intelligently directed country the man whose loss we now deplore 

 would have been placed in a position where his gifts could have been 

 exercised continuously and to the greatest advantage. Elsewhere in 

 these pages appears an account of Tutt as a teacher ; and assuredly 

 the uttermost need of the great profession of teaching is that of men 

 who feel that their work is the one thing they love, the one thing they 

 are fitted for. But he who inspires scientific interest and investigation 

 is also a teacher, and the possessor of powers that are even rarer than 

 those qualities — of inestimable value and far too rare — that are 

 required for the education of the young. I cannot but think that the 

 speaker was right and that the whole of Tutt's time and energy ought 

 to have been made available for the exercise of his greatest gifts. 



To understand the full height of Tutt's achievement it is necessary 

 to remember that the road leading to the Kingdom of Science was not 

 made smooth and easy for him. Success was only possible because he 

 had the qualities of one 



" Who makes by force his merit known," 

 of one who 



" grasps the skirts of happy chance, 



And breasts the blows of circumstance." 



Much might be written upon the strength, the will, and the other 

 qualities by which such results under such conditions were rendered 

 possible ; but in the tragic circumstances of his death, I prefer, in 

 closing, to dwell upon Tutt's two supreme gifts — the power of work, 

 the power of inspiring work in others. — Wykeham House, Oxford. 

 April 30th, 1911. 



By Prof. W. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S., F.E.S. 



I value very much the invitation to write a few words in appreciation 

 of the work of ^that remarkable man whom the entomological world 

 has just lost. Mr. Tutt's name should long be remembered with 

 gratitude by workers in various fields of biological activity. Of other 

 aspects of his work his own colleagues can speak, but to me he was 

 known as the man who first attempted an accurate codification of 

 knowledge regarding the variation of lepidoptera. To those who are 

 engaged in trying to trace the principles of organic variation, some 

 codification of the facts is the very first necessity, and though such a 

 task could manifestly not be completed in the intervals of leisure which 

 could be spared from one busy life, Tutt began it well and showed to 

 others how it could be done. I made his acquaintance about seventeen 

 years ago, at a time when I was myself meditating a somewhat similar 

 enterprise. For obvious reasons the lepidoptera are exceptionally 

 good material for the study of variation, local and individual, and it 

 seemed to me that a plain collection of the facts would be a good 

 beginning. Knowing him only as editor of the Entomologist's Record 

 and Journal of Variation, I went to talk the matter over with him, 

 and with perfect generosity he offered me all the assistance he could 

 give. I found at once that he was already far on the way with 



