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business, and during the years devoted to commercial pursuits, he acquired the well-known 

 habits of punctuality, order and accuracy, which distinguished bim through life. He was 

 always prompt in answering letters and most courteous as a correspondent. The writer 

 had the pleaaurs of making his personal acquaintance at Mountsfield in 1864:, and found 

 him most kind and genial ; he also met him at one or two meetings of the Entomological 

 Society of London. Being a very energetic worker, he published a large number of 

 articles in various Natural History magazines, and was himself the editor of the ten 

 volumes of the Entomologist's Weekl// Inlelligencer ; twenty volumes of the 

 Entomologist's Annual, and joint editor from its foundation in 1864 to the end of his life 

 (twenty-eight volumes) oi The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. His writings are for the 

 most part devoted to the Micro Lepidoptera, in which group he was an acknowledged 

 authority and possessed a world-wide reputation. Amongst his better-knowa works may 

 be mentioned " Insecta Britannica LepidopteraTineina," one volume, 1854 ; a " Manual 

 of British Butterflies and Moths," two volumes, 1857-9, a model of clearness, conciseness 

 and accuracy, and most useful to all collectors of British Lepidoptera ; " The Natural 

 History of the Tineina," thirteen volumes, 1855-73, printed in four languages — English, 

 French, German and Latin — in which splendid work he was assisted by Z3ller, Frey.and 

 Douglas; "The Tineina of North America," one volume, 1872, being the collected 

 writings of the late Dr. Brackenridge Olemens, edited and annotated by Mr. Staiaton ; 

 "The Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor," one volume, 1864; "The Tineina of Southern 

 Europe," one volume, 1869. 



To the Tineina he devoted most of his time and attention, and of them he was a 

 diligent collector both in Britain and on the continent of Europe, and a painstaking 

 student. The result of his work was a complete revision of the European Micro-Lepidoptera 

 and the bringing into order and system of the various genera and species, to which little 

 attention had been previously given. His name will long be held in high honour by 

 entomologists everywhere, as one who devoted a long life to scientific investigation, and 

 enriched the literature of his favorite pursuit with admirable works of great ability and 

 unusual excellence, in which the literary portion was characterized by a charming and 

 attractive style. 0. J. S. B. 



