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wards there came a box from him containing four beautiful palealis, 
and a very good nimbana. A few weeks passed and I spent a week- 
end with my friend, and found that there was a blank in his series of 
palealis, and in the place of the specimens until recently filling that 
blank there were fowr pinholes in the paper! Turning to the nimbana 
series I found it consisted of two specimens and immediately below 
those was @ pinhole! One will never forget, too, his kindness at the 
famous collecting locality of Camghouran on the shores of Loch 
Rannoch in 1919, and especially the way in which he turned out of 
his room and moved into a much inferior one, so that his guest 
might have the best accommodation the small cottage he was staying 
in afforded. 
It it understood that. his extensive collections are bequeathed to 
the British Museum (Natural History), which should greatly benefit. 
thereby, for all his specimens are accurately and fully labelled. 
Wa Gas: 
Wirx deep regret we have to record the death of Albert Bridges. 
Farn, which took place at his residence at Ganarew, Monmouthshire, 
on October 31st last, in his eighty-first year, being born on March 
19th, 1841. For some years his health had been failing, and finally 
an operation was found necessary, which was performed successfully 
in August. That gave him hopes of being cured, but to his intense 
disappointment he learnt the following day that it was only a pre- 
liminary operation, and that a more serious one would be compulsory 
at some future date, which never occurred. In his weak condition 
this must have been a great trial during his last few weeks of patient 
suffering. In his last letter to the writer, dated September 4th, 1921, 
conveying this sad state of events, he adds: ‘ Of course I have done 
no collecting this season. To-day is a most glorious one, not acloud 
to be seen and the sun intensely hot, many Jo, two Atalanta and one 
Urtice (the only one I have seen this season) in the garden, besides 
the third brood of Hgeria....’ Mr. Farn was not only one of the 
most learned students of British Entomology, but an accomplished 
all-round naturalist and a keen sportsman. As is well known to 
many readers of this journal, he specialised in British Lepidoptera, 
and during his long and vigorous life he formed the finest private 
collection of these insects in the country, surpassing that of the well- 
known collection formed by the late Sydney Webb. The Farn 
Collection is especially rich in the large number of remarkable. 
varieties, and includes long series of many of our rarest species. He 
was a frequent attendant at the most important sales of British 
Lepidoptera held at Stevens’ auction rooms, and at the death of Mr. E. 
Sabine in 1906 he acquired his entire collection, which was in itself 
an extensive one and contained a great number of fine varieties, 
including a wonderful lengthy series of C. phigas. The series of 
C. dispar is probably one of the finest in private collections, both as 
regards condition and the number of specimens (about 3 doz.), and 
includes one female, probably the largest example known. Among 
the extraordinary varieties, too numerous to mention, allusion must 
be made to the remarkable unique melanie MW. galatea captured near 
Rochester in 1871. 
