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can remember to have seen in the cartes of themselves or their friends ; I have now 

 several of these which he sent me, at the same time pointing out their absurdities ; 

 but he must have OTercome this contempt for photography, for he also sent me two 

 likenesses taken at different times, for which he had posed himself, and with which 

 he was content, the last one showing in the prominence of the right eye the effect 

 of constant use of the magnifying lens. And this leads me to say that it is, of 

 course, as an indoor worker that Mr. Buckler has made his mark ; his sight was never 

 good enough to enable him to become a very successful collector, but in the way that 

 ■was open to him he was a most patient and loving student of Nature ; that he might 

 have his broods of growing larvae always under observation (and in this he owed much 

 to the kind help and attention of the friends with whom he lived), he used to keep 

 them either on plants in flower pots on the window seats of his bed-room and sitting- 

 room, or else in Q-erman test tubes of very thin glass, through which he could watch 

 every movement, and lens in hand he would sit for hours, alternately observing and 

 recording the habits of any fresh species. Of course it follows from this that his 

 name is associated with detailed accounts of life history, and not with captures of 

 new species, but it is remarkable that the last figure he took from life, in October, 

 1883, was that of a pug larva, singled out from a large batch I had sent him, and 

 which, as he could not identify it with any of our known British species, he was 

 hoping might turn out to be new. 



It is difficult to know where to stop in speaking of one, who has been so very 

 much to me, and who, though I saw him on three occasions only, was by our constant 

 interchange of letters always, as it were, present ; but I will add one thing more ; 

 the fascination, which Natural history exercises over observant minds, my friend felt 

 and enjoyed to the full ; and it touched in him a yet deeper spring of pleasure ; on 

 the fly-leaf of the 2nd volume of his copy of Stainton's Manual, I found written — 

 apparently some time after he first began to use the book, and as the result of later 

 reflection, — this quotation, "For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy works, 

 and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of Thy hands." — J. H., Exeter, 

 12th February, 1884. 



NOTES ON BEITISH TORTRICES. 

 BY CHAS. G. BAERETT. 

 (^Continued from page 135). 



Referring back to Vol. xi, p. 29, of this Magazine (July, 1871), 

 it will be seen that in the course of these notes I arrived at the genus 

 Cnephasia of Curtis (Sciaphila, Tr.), and after a few remarks on the 

 two very distinct species, cinctana and hyhridana — which, indeed, 

 hardly belong to the genus — I found it desirable to defer any detailed 

 notice of the remainder until further information upon our native 

 species could be obtained. Nearly ten years have passed, and the 

 genus is still involved in difficulty, but it seems time that such know- 

 ledge as we have of it should be brought together, if only as a basis 

 for further investijiation. 



