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plished work of great value and importance. It is surely 
interesting now and again to look back; and if an occasional 
review of what has been done has no other effect, it will, I 
feel sure, convince us that though we are deservedly proud 
of the society to which we belong, much good work was done 
before our club was formed. But incidentally, also, many 
points of importance to us, as students of local natural history, 
present themselves. Mr. George Norman spent a great deal 
of his time in his favourite pursuit, entomology; though he 
was much interested in botany (including the diatomacez) 
and other branches of natural history, and accomplished 
some sound work in connection therewith. He spent part of 
his life in business as a merchant, together with his brother, 
Mr. T. A. Norman, in Wilberforce House, High Street; but 
he preferred the country and the study of Nature to crowded 
thoroughfares and business anxieties. And who would not ? 
But being in comfortable circumstances, Norman was able 
to follow his own inclinations; and, contrary to what is 
usually done by people similarly situated, he devoted practi- 
cally the whole of his life to the study of Nature’s secrets. 
How strange it is that those best able to do good work so 
rarely take advantage of their opportunities, and usually 
spend a life of idleness and luxury, leaving the world little, 
if any, the better for their existence. But Norman’s time 
was well and profitably spent, with the result that he has 
made several additions to our knowledge of the flora and 
fauna of Britain, and also of America. 
He was not a mere collector, I am told he simply 
took what he required for his purpose, and had the utmost 
contempt for those who would not hesitate to kill hundreds 
of insects, or even exterminate a rare species from a district 
altogether, for the sake of keeping a stock of negotiable 
specimens. 
In this neighbourhood George Norman collected butter- 
flies and moths, though his most valuable results in this 
direction were achieved elsewhere. He had certain books, 
which were his ‘‘ working” books, and it is from his numerous 
notes and records on their pages that we are able to form 
some idea of what he accomplished. A copy of Stainton’s 
‘‘ Manual of British Butterflies and Moths’’* (1857, Vol. I.) 
* This book is a fair example of the style of Norman's work. Not 
only are there notes, additional localities, &c., on almost every page, 
but he has taken photographs (natural size) of a large proportion of the 
moths described therein, ani pasted them in the margin of the book. 
In some cases there are four or five such photographs on one page. 
