THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXII.] NOVEMBER, 1889. [No. 318. 



FREDERICK BOND: IN MEMORIAM. 



Frederick Bond was born at Exmouth on the 22nd February, 

 1811, being the third son of William Bond, a Captain in His 

 Majesty's 77th Foot, whose widow married a brother-officer of 

 the same surname. Captain Benjamin Bond, of Mount Pleasant, 

 Kingsbury, Middlesex. He was educated at Brighton, and was 

 intended for the medical profession ; but the dissecting-room was 

 distasteful to him, and being blessed with a competency sufficient 

 for his modest requirements, he was left free to indulge his 

 propensity for sport and natural history, and became an adept 

 alike with gun, rod, and net. He was also devotedly fond of 

 flowers and ferns, and, particularly in his later years, would 

 spend hours in attending to his garden and greenhouse. But his 

 chief occupations were shooting, fishing, and collecting insects ; 

 and being endowed with great power of observation, he amassed 

 a vast store of knowledge respecting the habits of our native 

 birds and insects, principally of Lepidoptera. Primarily he was 

 an ornithologist, and his collection of British birds and their eggs 

 was remarkable. But his ornithological virtues will doubtless be 

 chronicled elsewhere. It is of the entomologist that we have here 

 to speak, and in his character of British Lepidopterist to take a 

 last farewell of our departed friend. 



At the age of fifteen, or thereabouts, Frederick Bond began to 

 collect insects, and down to the time of his death he missed no 

 opportunity of adding to his cabinet. He cared little or nothing 

 for foreign insects, and his British collection was confined to the 

 Order Lepidoptera. It is not too much to say that it is one of 

 the best collections of the present day. It is simply splendid, 

 and especially rich in curious varieties ; whilst its interest is 

 enhanced by the fact that so large a proportion of the whole were 

 captured or bred by himself. 



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