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more highly csteeiripd by entomologists than that of Neville Manders, long 

 time a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, and recognised also as 

 an expert in onr Science as well as the best of good comrades. He fell at the 

 beginning of August, and although the official notification of his death, and the 

 telegram from the General Officer commanding the Division with which he was 

 serving at the time, does not inform us of the way in which he met his death, 

 we have no difficulty in supposing that it was in the trenches where the 

 wounded Australians and New Zealanders were his first and constant care. It 

 is pleasant at least to reflect that he retained his interest in the wild life of 

 that blood-stained field of many battles to the last, and that in his letters to 

 his friends, down to within a few days of the end, he found time to observe the 

 butterflies and birds haiinting the limestone hills of the Peninsi\la, and to send 

 home notes upon them. Undiminished, gay in life, even while the great guns 

 were booming, and the air thick with the smoke of conflict. 



Born at Marlborough fifty-six years ago, the youngest son of Major Thomas 

 Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), he was educated at the College 

 which has given us at least another entomologist of the first scientific rank. 

 I do not possess the Transactions of the School Natural History Society, but 

 Colonel Manders often talked with me of his early love for the Lepidoptera of 

 the neighbourhood, and how his first inclinations to entomology were fostered 

 under the beech trees of Savernake. From Marlborough he proceeded to walk 

 the London Hospitals, eventiially qualifying as F.E.C.P. and M.E.C.S., pre- 

 paratory to entering the Army Medical Service, being almost immediately 

 ordered to the Soudan, where he served in the Suakin campaign, and was 

 awarded the Khedive's Star, with medal and clasp. Thence he proceeded to 

 Burmah where he was severely wounded, and at the close of the war which 

 added Thebaw's country to the British Empire, received a second medal with 

 two clasps. At the time of — and after — the South African War, he was in Ceylon 

 and Mauritius, whence he began to write the series of interesting papers 

 relative to insect migration and mimicry, published fx'om time to time in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, his latest contribution 

 appearing in the " Proceedings " of March 3rd, 1915. 



His catalogue of the butterflies of Maiu-itivis and Bourbon (1907) consider- 

 ably enhances liis entomological reputation, and our knowledge of the islands' 

 fauna, and actually added a species, Nacaduha nutndersi Druce ; and a new sub- 

 species, Antanartia mauritiana Manders, to the list. He was also a frequent 

 contributor to the entomological magazines, even finding time for communications 

 despite his multifarious duties in Egypt, where he was stationed when hostilities 

 began, with the rank of Deputy-Director of the Medical Service. Here he 

 was joined later, and after the declaration of war with Turkey, by 

 Mr. P. P. Graves, and at the beginning of the present year published " The 

 Butterflies of Lower Egypt" (Ent. Record, XXVII, pp. 60-65). 



Colonel Manders was married. He leaves a widow and a daughter, to 

 whom we offer our sincerest sympathy. Some idea of the reputation he held in 

 his profession, and the respect with which he was held by the entire Command 

 at the Dardanelles front may be gathered from the following telegram received 



