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where he established a prosperous business ; but this necessitated close 

 personal attention, and, with the exception of his regular morning 

 " constitutional," taken before business hours, he had little oppor- 

 tunity for collecting. It was, however, surprising to find the number 

 of species, many of them by no means common ones, that his keen eye 

 detected on the palings and tree-trunks in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of his residence during these short rambles. He also gave much 

 attention to rearing larvae, and was thus enabled to furnish the life- 

 histories, previously unknown, of many of our rarer species, as well as 

 to enrich his collection with unusually fine series of them. But an 

 opportunity for more extended field work was afi^orded by the annual 

 holiday ; it was on these occasions that his most notable captures were 

 made. He was among the first to detect Zi/f/cBva meliloti in the New 

 Forest ; Nnla cmtonalis at Freshwater, and later at Deal ; and from 

 the material obtained at the latter locality, to work out the life-history 

 of this species, as well as that of Acidalia ochrata. In the same 

 neighbourhood he was fortunate in taking the rare Pyrales, Mecyna 

 poJi/f/onalia and Marr/arodes unionalia ; while from moths taken at 

 Abbot's Wood he added the life-history of Aifrotera nemoraUs to our 

 knowledge. In 1886 he set his heart upon taking Zijf/mia exulatja, 

 and having with some difficulty obtained the necessary permission to 

 work the domain in which its highland home was known to be situated, 

 he started north with his intimate friend Lachlan Gibb, and, after 

 some days spent in wandering over mountains, they were rewarded by 

 securing a goodly number of specimens, much to his delight, but not 

 without considerable strain upon his physical power. Although a man 

 of somewhat pronounced opinions, he was an exceedingly pleasant 

 acquaintance, and a true friend to those who enjoyed his confidence, 

 and in the field a most pleasant companion, his intimate knowledge of 

 botany and ornithology adding not a little to the interest and enjoy- 

 ment of rambles taken in his society. His contributions to entomo- 

 logical literature were fi'equent, and consisted for the most part of 

 notes of general interest, commencing with the first volume of the 

 ' Intelligencer,' and appearing from time to time in the various journals 

 devoted to the subject, his last appearing posthumously in our October 

 number. He joined the South London Society in 1873, and occupied 

 the presidential chair in 1891, taking an anxious interest in its affairs 

 throughout his membership. Some three years ago he was seized with 

 the distressing spinal disorder which ultimately proved fatal ; but 

 although deprived of his powers of locomotion, and in almost con- 

 tinuous bodily suffering, he continued not only to supervise his busi- 

 ness, but to follow out his entomological work, so far as the altered 

 circumstances would permit, the rearing of sundry species from the 

 egg occupying a considerable portion of his attention. We learn that 

 his fine, and in some respects unique, collection will shortly be offered 

 for sale. He died on Sept. 20th, regretted by all who knew him, most 

 by those who knew him best. — K. A. 



