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continental buttertlies as a whole. His own interest was inherited 

 partly from his uncle, the Eev. George Ayliffe Poole, whose collections 

 were bequeathed by his son to Charterhouse School, and partly no 

 doubt from his father, the Eev. Julius Conran Lowe, of Whaplode, 

 St. John's, near Croyland, who had himself hunted the Large 

 Copper in the neighbouring fen lands of Cambridgeshire. He 

 collected, as most boys do, but not systematically before 1880. 

 " One day," writes Mrs. Lowe, " I returned from walking on the 

 cliff. I described to him a brown butterfly I had noticed different 

 from anything I had seen before. The next day we went to identify 

 it, and it was cinxia." This refired his enthusiasm, and from that 

 time he became an ardent collector, and a close observer. He first 

 went to Switzerland in 1897, and until the outbreak of the war 

 continued to take his annual holiday in some or other butterfly- 

 haunted region. He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society in 1894, and, it was at a meeting in 1906, after several 

 years' correspondence that I first met him and began a friendship 

 which lasted to the end of his life. A deeply religious nature, 

 endowed with a full measure of appreciation for the beautiful things 

 of life, he combined with his many lovable qualities, a keen and 

 delicate sense of humour. A delightful travelling companion, and 

 a charming host, I look back with gratitude to the days — alas ! too 

 few — that I was privileged to be with him, whether in the Apatura 

 glorified woodlands of Switzerland, or in his own sunny rectory 

 where Lampides hceticus''- so often made a natural home. Mr. Lowe 

 married in 1877 the only daughter of Mr. George Alexander 

 Stewart, of Inverleithing, N.B. Mrs. Lowe, and his only daughter 

 Mrs. Lucas, the wife of the vicar of Kettering, survive him. His 

 first contribution to the ' Entomologist,' a note on Calloijhrys ruhi 

 in Guernsey appeared in 1883 ; his last, Colias edicsa in Guernsey, 

 in 1917. The majority of his notes and papers! in our magazine 

 are included between these dates. He was also a contributor for 

 many years to the ' Entomologist's Record,' with important papers 

 on the lepidoptera of Piedmont, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Spain, 

 and Southern France. In his home, in his parish, among the 

 brotherhood of entomologists he leaves a host of friends who will 

 cherish his memory. Benignus, amabilis, flebilis. H. R.-B. 



With much regret we have to announce that Mr. Cliarles Levett, 

 of Putney, died on March 17th last, aged 72 years. 



* ''Lampides hcetica in Guernsey," 'Trans. Guernsey Soc. Nat. Sci.,' 1899. 

 '' Lampides baeticu!t in Guernsey," 'Entomologist,' vol. xliv, p. 367. '' Lampides 

 hceticus in the Channel Islands," ' Entomologist's Record,' vol. xvi, p. 297. " The 

 Life History of Lamjndex hneticus,'" id., vol. xx, p. 139. 



f The more important papers are " Size Variation of Melitcea athalia," vol. Ivii, 

 p. 59. " Some Notes on the Lepidoptera of Ste. Baume, Yar. (i) Butterflies, 

 (ii) Moths," vol. xlvii, pp. 14, and 60, and " More Notes," 1914, vol. xlix, p. 8. 



