26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



On the Male Genital Armature in the European Ehopalocera, 

 3 plates. Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd ser. Zool., vol. i. 



Collecting in Glen Tilt. Entom. xi. 



Note on the genus Orthezia. Entom. xiii. 



Some Thoughts on the Distribution of the British Butterflies. 

 Entom. xiv. 



Structure of the Terminal Abdominal Segments in the Males of 

 the genus Eupithecia, 2 plates. Entom. xxiv. 



The present high position of the Perthshire Society of Natural 

 Science is largely due to the energetic interest which Dr. White 

 always took in it. At the meeting of this Society in December 

 last, "the President, referring to the great loss which they had 

 sustained in the death of the founder and prime supporter of the 

 institution, said : — 



" I shall not attempt to lay before you to-night any detailed 

 biographical notice of the late Dr. Buchanan White, but shall 

 content myself with recalling to your minds, in a few words, 

 what we owed to him as a fellow- worker in the field of scientific 

 research and in the management of the affairs of this Society. 

 Those of us who have had the privilege of accompanying him in 

 Natural History rambles throughout the county know well what 

 an accurate observer and what a genial companion he was. 

 Nothing seemed to escape his notice, either in organic or 

 inorganic nature. He was a specialist of the highest rank in 

 certain branches of Natural Science, and yet he never allowed 

 his specialism to interfere with his appreciation of Nature as a 

 whole. Not only had he the keen eye of the trained naturalist 

 to detect the minutest distinction in plant or insect, but he had 

 also to a large extent the eye of the artist and the feeling of the 

 poet to admire and reverence all that is beautiful in form or 

 colour in Nature. This combination of faculties is the more 

 noteworthy, as it is only too rare amongst the naturalists of the 

 present day. As a companion in the field, none could have 

 been more willing to contribute of his store of knowledge than 

 he was, and yet never for a moment did we feel that the in- 

 formation was being forced upon us, or that there was even a 

 trace of ostentatious display of superior attainments. Truly 

 the humility which comes of true greatness was his. He was 

 endowed with a large sense of humour, which made his com- 

 panionship particularly charming. Every now and then, in the 

 midst of serious work, some trivial circumstance would strike 

 him in a ludicrous aspect, and his merry laugh could not but 

 infect those round about him. Eegarding his scientific work I 

 shall not go into any details here, but in order to show the 

 versatility of his genius I shall merely remind you that besides 

 being one of the leading authorities in the country on the 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, and on the willows and certain 

 other groups of plants, he had also worked up most thoroughly 



