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OBITUAEY. 



Major John A. Still died suddenly while playing at golf on Whit- 

 church Down, near Tavistock, Devon, on the 23rd September last, at 

 the early age of 47. He was the eldest son of Captain John T, Still, 

 of Castlehill, Axminster, and of Mountfield, Musbury. Major J. A. 

 Still entered the Army as Ensign in the 25th Eegt. K. 0. B.'s in June, 

 1867, he resigned when purchase was abolished in 1873. He joined 

 the 3rd Batt. Royal Wiltshire Eegiment in 1875, and retired with the 

 rank of Major in 1886. After his retirement he recommenced collecting 

 Lepidoptera, with a view of completing his collection begun while at 

 college before entering the Army, devoting his whole time to that 

 object during the summer, thereby obtaining numerous duplicates, 

 which he distributed with a free hand. He will be missed very much 

 by his numerous entomological correspondents, and by his personal 

 friends so suddenly deprived of his very congenial companionship. — 



G. C. BiGNELL. 



[In a recent letter referring to the late Major Still, Mr. Hodges 

 says : — " I had the pleasure of a week's collecting with him in 1894, 

 and about ten days this year, at his own invitation, in pursuit of 

 L. arion, and should like to mention his sportsmanlike and courteous 

 behaviour to myself, an almost complete stranger to him. He had 

 a great horror of modern exterminators, and did his best to keep his 

 locality private from such. His last act on leaving the spot this 

 season was to release six living female L. avion which he had pre- 

 viously boxed, so as to ensure leaving some to perpetuate the species." 

 —Ed.] 



By the death of William Henry Tugwell, which we briefly 

 recorded in our last number, we lose another of the links connecting 

 the past generation of entomologists with the present, a loss that 

 will be felt by a very large number of friends and correspondents 

 scattered throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom ; but 

 most of all, perhaps, by those whose privilege it was to have his 

 personal acquaintance. Born in the quiet town of Reigate, in 1831, 

 he early acquired a taste for the wonders of Nature by which he was 

 surrounded, the chalk downs on the one hand and the well-wooded 

 country of the Tilgate Forest at no great distance on the other, 

 affording opportunities for the exercise of his powers of keen per- 

 ception, of which he did not fail to take advantage. But his lot was 

 not to continue in such pleasant places, and, having selected as a 

 profession that of a pharmaceutical chemist, he removed to London, 

 and for some years resided in the heart of the City. Even under these 

 circumstances his love of Nature was not allowed to languish. No 

 opportunity of visiting the scenes of his youth was lost, and nothing 

 gave him greater pleasure than on a hard-earned holiday to ramble 

 through Tilgate Forest and Wykehurst Park with the late Tester, under 

 whose guidance he had learned every inch of the ground, in quest of 

 some of the "good things" that were in those days to be found in the 

 district — Endromis versicolor, now a thing of the past, among the 

 number. After some years spent in London he removed to Greenwich, 



