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press, the regrettable decease of our highly-esteemed and deeply-loved 

 colleague, Arthur John Chitt^^ He was the eldest son of Sir 

 Joseph W. Chittj", a Lord Justice of Appeal, and was born on 

 May 27th, 1859. Educated at a private school till he went to 

 Eton, in September, 1872, he there made excellent progress, and, 

 when he left, in July, 1878, was head of his House and in the 

 Vlth Form. In 1877, he was in the Cricket and Football Elevens. 

 Although at Oxford he occasionally kept wicket for the University, 

 he never played against Cambridge. At football he was unlucky, 

 for, though selected to play in the Inter-'Varsity Association 

 match of 1878, he was prevented by an injury from doing so. 

 In that year, however, with his brother, Mr. J. H. P. Chitty, he helped 

 to win the double Fives match for Oxford. He rowed in his College 

 Eight (Balliol), and was for many years Secretary, and subsequently 

 Treasurer, of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. At Balliol he was 

 in residence from 1878-1882, taking a First in Honour Moderations 

 (Classical), in 1880, and a Second Class in the Final School of 

 " Litterae Humaniores " in 1882. For a time he was greatly inter- 

 ested in astronomy, and constructed his own reflecting telescopes 

 whilst he was engaged in the study. He was also an accomplished 

 violinist. On leaving Oxford he entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn 

 becoming in due course, Bavrister-at-Law. 



His interest in natural history dates back to 1869, when, as a young- 

 ster, he collected butterflies ; but a deeper interest in entomology was 

 awakened by reading Lubbock's "Bees and Ants" during his Eton 

 days, and more definite observations took the place of the early 

 desultory collecting. His first serious attempt at making a collection 

 was, how^ever, in 1883, when he captured a large number of 

 coleoptera in North Wales, and thence onward, in the Long Vacation, 

 when at the Bar, between 1883 and 1894, he devoted the leisure 

 of his holidays entirely to collecting. In June, 1894, he married 

 the daughter of Sir John Croft, Bart., but still his leisure was 

 entirely devoted to collecting — and lepidoptera, coleoptera, hemiptera, 

 hymenoptera, etc., all had their share of his attention, although 

 he was, of course, first and foremost a coleopterist. He was an 

 excellent field-worker, keen, observant, and patient in following up 

 anything once he had directed his attention to it. In addition, his 

 excellent education made him a first-class student, and so his intuitive 

 observational powers, coupled with his ability to unearth and thoroughly 

 digest the literature of his subject, made everything he wrote especially 

 valuable. He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 

 1891, served as a member of the Council from 1902-4, and again from 

 1906 till his death, during which two periods of service, he was never 

 absent on a single occasion, down to the time of his last illness, and 

 which ended in his unexpected decease. He was a regular attendant at 

 the ordinary meetings, keenly interested in the exhibits made and in 

 the discussions arising therefrom, as well as in the ordinary business 

 affairs of the Society. He was elected one of the " Eight " members 

 of the Entomological Club, and the annual "supper," to the Club 

 members and friends, at Hereford Square, was always a huge success. 

 In order to have • a representative on the Editorial Staff of the 

 EntuDwloc/ist's Record, capable of dealing skilfully with questions 

 relating to the less-known orders — hymenoptera, hemiptera, etc. — 



