304 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Mr. Farn was not only a patient and keen observer, but a perse- 
vering and very successful collector. He was a frequent contributor 
to the ‘ Entomologist.’ His first contribution appeared in the April 
number of vol. iv, for 1869, on “ Critical Notes on Entomological 
Authors,’ occupying four and a half pages, in which he accurately 
alluded to the errors ‘in such books as Prof Westwood’s ‘ Butterflies 
of Great Britain ’and Mr. Stainton’s ‘Manual of British Butterflies 
and Moths.” In June of the following year he contributed five 
pages on the ‘Silk Culture of Japan,’ followed by numerous con- 
tributions on various subjects, and records of the capture of rare 
and interesting species during subsequent years. In 1880 he revised 
and extended the third endition of the well-known ‘ Insect Hunter’s 
‘Companion,’ by the late Rev. Joseph Green. 
Besides an entomologist Mr. Farn was a well-known ornithologist 
and recognised as a very first class shot, consequently he was a 
frequent guest at the big shoots of the late Lord Walsingham and 
other noted shots. As a snipe shot he has probably not been equalled, 
his record bag being thirty snipe in thirty consecutive shots. He was 
an expert in taxidermy and accumulated a choice collection of many 
of our rarer birds, obtained with his own gun, and admirably pre- 
served in natural attitudes as observed by himself in life. He also 
formed a very extensive and valuable collection of eggs of all the 
British birds, including the rarest waders and other Arctic breeding 
species. During his later years he devoted much of his leisure in 
making faithful coloured drawings of a great number of eggs in his 
collection—a task he found at times somewhat difficult, and which the 
writer had the pleasure of assisting him to accomplish. Upon 
his retirement from official duties at Whitehall, where he held 
the important post of Examiner and Administrater of Vaccine, about 
twenty years ago, he moved from his rural home at Greenhithe to 
Hereford, chiefly with the hopes of turning up in some of its old 
localities the now supposed extinct (in Britain) LZ. acis, but without 
success. While residing there and giving up the more fatiguing 
sport of shooting he became a keen angler, and landed many fine 
Wye salmon. From Hereford he moved still further westwards, to 
Ganarew, in Monmouthshire, where he did a large amount of natural 
‘history research in spite of his flagging health. Mr. Farn was a 
man of extraordinary courage, determination and reliability; his word 
was the acme of accuracy and truth. His loss will be keenly felt by 
a large circle of friends, and by none more deeply than by the writer 
of these lines, after a friendship extending over forty years. 
W. EF. 
