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at the same time it was easy of access to London ; an environment 

 well fitted for an ardent, active lover of nature. Over this district he 

 wandered until he knew intimately the North Downs from Guildford 

 to Caterham, the Holmesdale Valley from Godstone to St, Martha's, 

 the Surrey uplands from Ewhurst to Tilburstow Hill, and the Weald 

 from Crowborough to Balcombe and the Forest. Often has it been the 

 writer's delight to accompany him on these rambles, not collecting, but 

 wandering, observing, learning from nature, sitting by the wayside or 

 on "coigns of vantage," like Leith Hill, or Crowborough Beacon, 

 for a frugal repast, getting tea in an out of the way hostel or cottage 

 like the sylvan retreat at the back of Box Hill, or the like at Cold- 

 harbour, 



Generous beyond the common run of men, no one ever helped his 

 study but he repaid him manifold. To one a lens to aid his work, to 

 another a cabinet to keep the specimens previously passed over, to 

 another material to continue his studies, to another a plate to illustrate 

 his article, to help a magazine with illustrations, to aid a struggling 

 society, wherever help to further his beloved science was needed he 

 never refused, in fact, his aid was often proffered before it could be 

 invited ; he seemed to know intuitively aid was wanted. It is not ex- 

 aggeration to say that much of the entomological work of the last 

 quarter of a century was helped by him as far as he was able in one 

 way or another. His natural modesty forbade him to thrust his own 

 views forward with insistence, and yet it came to be that not only was 

 his opinion sought by many, but it was respected by all, and in Society 

 discussions it was recognised as bearing the weight of knowledge and 

 facts, and based on the practical experience of a master in scientific 

 study. 



In the family circle and to his intimate friends he was known as 

 " The Doctor," and to be admitted to his study and library was a 

 privilege to be experienced to be appreciated. One was always made 

 interested in the work he was doing at the moment. Surrounded by 

 his valuable library, with all the best books of this age and the last, 

 with quantities of separata on every entomological subject, which 

 friends and correspondents literally showered upon him, he kept him- 

 self apace with all advance, and could support or discredit a thesis with 

 abundant facts and figures. Not only was his name familiar in the 

 literature of entomology of this country, but he was known far and 

 wide : workers on the continent, in the colonies, and in America, never 

 omitted to send him their brochures, to appeal to him on knotty prob- 

 lems, to send him material for his study and quoted his work and opinions 

 constantl}'. As a master of detail, shown in his description of minute 

 insect structures in Tutt's British Lepiiloiifera, he was supreme. One 

 of the aims of his life was tersely expressed, when the writer somewhat 

 deprecated the working out of such detail, by his remark, " I am satis- 

 tied if I can add to the sum total of human knowledge," and then he 

 added, " Some fellow may come along who wants this and there it is." 



Now the writer is free from daily duties it was his intention to live 

 nearer " the Doctor " ; he too had looked forward to a renewal of the 

 delightful rambles which had been interrupted by his recent indisposi- 

 tions. But this was not to be, he is gone and we mourn him as one of 

 those leading us forward, to whom we always looked with confidence. 

 Truthfully can it be said that no deprecatory word was ever uttered of 

 ought he did or said. We ne'er shall see his like as;ain. — H.J.T. 



