24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Berkshire from the author. It is a careful compilation of pretty well 
all the information published on his subject, to which are added 
many useful personal notes and observations. It can be strongly 
recommended to the notice of local collectors, and to all those 
interested in the insular distribution of our limited British catalogue 
of butterflies. Mr. Blackie pays particular attention to local forms 
occurring in the county, and for this reason, if for no other, his 
remarks under this head are of special interest. 
OBITUARY. 
GrorcGE B. Browne was born August Ist, 1851,,and from his 
youth was a lover of country pursuits, but it was not until early 
middle life that he commenced to study the British Lepidoptera. He 
ascribed the awakening of his interest in the subject to the appear- 
ance one day in his garden at Lee, in South-East London, of a 
briluant g Apatura iris—a most unlikely butterfly to occur within 
the boundaries of London—and when at a later date it was followed 
by a specimen of Huvanessa antiopa, which settled upon the trunk 
of a tree and was captured by one of his sons by means of a glass 
tumbler, he was so delighted with the beauty of colouring. of the 
insects that he commenced to collect and study them—a pursuit he 
followed with undiminished ardour and enthusiasm to the end of his 
life. In the year 1900 he became a member of the South London 
Natural History and Entomological Society, and was a familiar figure 
at its meetings until his removal from London to Benfleet about six 
years ago. He was, perhaps, best known to his entomological friends 
as an indefatigable field worker, much of his collecting being done in 
the neighbourhood of Deal, in Kent, of which district and its lepidop- 
terous fauna he had an extensive knowledge. He was also fer many 
years afrequent visitor to Wicken Fen, and for a time was the owner 
of some of the fenland there, but a few months before his death the 
property was transferred to the National Trust, his failing health 
preventing him from paying further visits to the neighbourhood. On 
one occasion, when at Wicken, he came across a specimen of Acro- 
nycta strigosa at rest high up on the trunk of a tree, and after a good 
deal of difficulty managed to secure it, but it was not until he had 
returned to his lodgings that he discovered the identity of his capture. 
Until about four years ago he was remarkable for his vigour and 
apparent robust health, but an internal disorder which necessitated 
an operation in 1916 seriously undermined his strength, and lessened 
his power to resist an attack of pneumonia, which led to his death 
on Saturday, December 4th, 1920. A man of singularly amiable 
nature, unassuming, yet intensely practical in the affairs of life, as 
became his profession of a banker, he was never so happy as when 
introducing his friends to his best collecting-grounds, and helping 
them to capture some of the ‘“ good things” he had himself taken 
there. He will always be remembered by them with affection, and 
his death will be regretted by all who knew him. A. Tihs: 
