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wounded (medal and two clasps). After further service at home and 

 in the East, he was appointed Deputy-Director of the Medical Ser- 

 vice in Egypt, remaining at Cairo until last January, when, by 

 special request of the War Office, he was appointed to the Head- 

 quarters Staff of the Australian and New Zealand Forces. With 

 them he proceeded to the Dardanelles, finding time even among the 

 battle-smoke and din of action to observe the butterflies and other 

 living creatures pursuing their lives undisturbed in and about the 

 trenches. Indeed, I beheve his last published words to have been a 

 description of Nature calm amidst the turmoil of war. " Wonder of 

 wonders, there is a nightingale in full song, oblivious of the making of 

 history, and only impressing upon a casual listener that after all it 

 is love that rules the world." 



A keen critic of the various theories of mimicry, he contributed 

 to the discussions and Transactions of the Entomological Society, of 

 which he was elected a Eellow in 1887 ; while his service in Ceylon 

 and the Mauritius was productive of several remarkable works, over 

 and beyond occasional notes in this and other periodicals.* 



Colonel Manders was also deeply interested in the butterflies of 

 the palsearctic region, notably of the Mediterranean French Eiviera ; 

 and latterly of Egypt, where, in conjunction with Mr. P. P. Graves, 

 he made himself thoroughly acquainted with the Lepidoptera of the 

 Delta. 



My last meeting with him was at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Society, when he had been transferred from the Curragh to Cairo 

 and was home on leave. His time of service was then, to all appear- 

 ances, drawing to its natural close ; and we discussed the pleasures 

 of retirement to some butterfly-haunted neighbourhood where it 

 would be possible to ride our particular hobbies at ease. He leaves 

 behind him a widow, the daughter of Mr. E. N. Vane, of Ceylon, and 

 one daughter. Well has she written his epitaph : — 

 " II est mort sur le Champ d'Honneur." 



Mrs. Manders received the following telegram from the G. 0. C, 

 the ""^ew Zealand and Australian Division : " On behalf of both 

 myself and the whole of the New Zealand and Australian Division, I 

 send our sincerest condolences. Your husband's work here and 

 devotion to duly make his loss irreparable both to me and to the 

 Division." 



Truly, he was a very gallant gentleman. H. E.-B. 



* E.g. "Some Breeding Experiments on Catopsilia pijrantlie, and 

 Notes on the Migration of Butterflies in Ceylon," ' Trans. Ent. Soc. London,' 

 1904. 



"The Butterflies of Mauritius and Bourbon," id. 1907, with a coloured 

 plate and figures of the male and female of Nacaduba mandersi, Druce, 

 discovered by, and named after, the author of the paper ; and another new 

 sub-species named and described by himself — Antanartia maztritiana, 

 Manders. 



" A factor in the production of mutual resemblance in allied species of 

 Butterflies ; a presumed Miillerian combination of Euploeas in South 

 India and Amauris in South Africa " ; id. 1911. , -' 



" Tiie Study of Mimicry (Batesian and Miillerian) by temperature 

 experiments on two Tropical Butterflies " ; id. 1912. 



