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was one of these. To the records printed therein Norman 
has inserted additional localities in a large number of cases. 
Several of these are of great local importance. I have care- 
fully examined the book, and find that no less than 14 species, 
mostly labelled ‘‘ Hull,’ ‘‘ Hessle,” or “‘ Cottingham,” are not 
included in Mr. Boult’s list of local Macro-lepidoptera, which 
is published in our last Transactions. These are included 
in the ‘‘ List of Additions,’’ which will appear in the current 
year’s issue (see page 115). In several instances the records 
are initialled ‘‘T. S.”’ These initials are those of Thomas 
Stather (uncle to our member, Mr. J. W. Stather), who lived 
in Derringham Street, and got together a very fine collection, 
which I am pleased to say is still in existence. 
But it was in Scotland and Canada that Norman 
accomplished his most valuable entomological work; and as 
the places he visited were almost new ground at that time, 
he obtained quite a large number of rare and interesting 
specimens, several of which were new records for the 
localities, and in many instances new to science. Some of 
these were named after him; for example, amongst the 
Canadian specimens we find Perigrapha Normani, Agrotis 
Normaniana, Noctua Normaniana, Lithophane Georgii, and 
Crocigrapha Norman. 
Much of his time was spent at Forres, in Morayshire, 
where he was able to find plenty to occupy his attention. 
The ‘ Zoologist”’ contains a number of contributions from 
his pen on the insect fauna of Morayshire. The “ Scottish 
Naturalist,” or, as Mr. Norman styled it, the ‘‘ Book of 
Thistles,’’ started in 1875, and one of the first papers printed 
therein (pages 16-18) is ‘A List of the Noctuz occurring in 
Morayshire.” * 
Other notes of his appear in the same volume. In The 
Entomologist’s Annual for 1869 is ** A Table of Scarce and 
Local British Lepidoptera,’ for the previous year, in which 
Norman is responsible for quite a large number, all from 
Forres, whilst in the same Annual for 1872, further records 
from Forres are enumerated (pages 111 and 114). The Ento- 
mologist’s Monthly Magazine contains several similar notes; for 
instance, in Vol. 18 (for 1881-2), he gives particulars of 
additions to his ‘ previous list of bugs occurring in Moray- 
shire’’ (June, 1881, vol. 18), whilst in the August number for 
the same year Mr. John Scott describes three species new to 
* In this paper Norman speaks of having taken to his ‘‘old study, 
entomology, after a lapse of above twenty-five years.’ Probably during 
this time his attentions were more devoted to microscopy. 
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