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contributed much to the Tinu's and to several of the foremost maga- 

 zines, whilst his two volumes of [)oetry'- show him to be an imaginative 

 artist of very considerable powei'. His sonnet " Hyeres " is a most 

 beautiful word picture of that lovely country, so true to life, so full of 

 love and insight, that I must quote a few lines of it. 



" . . . . Beneath my feet a maze 

 Of gemmed mosaic, wiiere the cistus white 

 Showers the earth with limpid chrysolite ; 



Hedges of rosemary, and upland wnys 

 Thickset with lavender; wariu rocks ablaze 

 With red valerian ; and, flashing bright 

 Among the black- branched ilex, butterflies 

 Sulphur and scarlet-robed, by poets named 

 ' The Glory of Provence.' With such fair dreams 

 I charm the solitude that darkest seems 

 Here in England when, 'neath s'ullen skies, 

 Spring on the threshold lingers all ashamed." 



Turning now to his Entomological work, he was without doubt 

 the first British authority on French Rhopalocera, his numerous 

 travels there, his love of the country, and his close intimacy with his 

 dear friend, Charles Oberthiir, gave him the opportunities and fitted 

 him specially to shine in that subject. Well does the writer 

 remember meeting him quite unexpectedly at Gavarnie somewhere 

 about the summer of 1910, and many a happy day was spent together 

 then. His writings in our contemporary, The Rntomolntiht, are 

 voluminous, and always interesting and instructive, whilst some of his 

 larger papers in the Etudes de L,epidi>j>ter<d(i(iie ('oiiiiiarec and elsewhere, 

 are most valuable contributions to the science he loved so well. 



Many will remember him as one of the Hosts of the Entomological 

 Club, when his gatherings were always happy and bright and entertain- 

 ing, when ali^o his literary powers and his powers as a conversationalist 

 cauie brilliantly to his ii,i(l. His services as Hon. Secretary to the 

 Entomological Society of London were a great asset, an office he held 

 for over ten years, for he was one of the most congenial and helpful of 

 Secretaries, and he served well in other capacities also. 



How little did the writer think, when he saw him in February for 

 the last time, that he would not meet him again in this world. He 

 was then so bright and full of conversation, delighting to talk of 

 various parts of France well known to each, and so keen to show some 

 of bis treasures both in his own cabinets as well as in those that 

 foi'merly belonged to his old friend the Rev. F. E. Lowe, his 

 magnificent series of the genus MeliUica being then much in the fore- 

 front of his mind. It seemed then as if our dear friend was really 

 going to recover, but alas it was not to be, for soon another relapse 

 came on bringing with it severe suffering — borne as ever with the 

 utnu)st bravery — then came a few days relief accompanied with joy 

 and peace, and so, on May Brd the end came and his spirit returned to 

 Him who gave it. " At Peace." 



We must not close without tendering to bis aged mother and his 

 ister (to whom he was all in all), our deepest sympathy. — G.T.B-B. 



* llhijnies and RliapwiUcs iind PreluiJef! and Si/wpJicDieit, by Oliver Grey. 



