on the Bionomics of Southern Nigerian Insects. 327 
G. Lister, the distinguished authority on the group (Journ. 
Bot., vol. liv, 1916, pp. 121-33, pl. 541). 
Farquharson had been a year at Moor Plantation when 
he came under a third great influence, and one which was 
to determine the direction of his later researches; for, in 
May 1913, W. A. Lamborn, an extraordinarily keen and 
accurate observer of insect life, became his colleague as 
Government Entomologist. 
How his interest came to be aroused is told in a letter 
written to me on February 10, 1914 :— 
“T have to thank you for your most kind and encourag- 
ing letter which I received by last mail and for the many 
kind references to myself in your letters to Dr. Lamborn. 
I greatly fear, however, that you are giving credit where 
very little is due. Perhaps he has not explained how I 
came to bring him in the specimens which he generously 
contributed in my name to the Hope Collection. In my 
spare time I was collecting some fungi for Kew and Myxo- 
mycetes for Miss Lister, and of course in passing I met 
with some insects that looked interesting which I took 
to Dr. Lamborn. Under the stimulus of his enthusiasm 
I became interested in the curious habits of many of the 
insects and wrote one or two notes at his suggestion. 
“Tt is largely due to the Myxos that the work was 
done. One has to look rather closely for these, and the 
relatively gross, if I may so use the word, phenomena of 
insect life could hardly be overlooked. On Moor Planta- 
tion, I am happy to say, I have since the beginning of 
August found nearly thirty species of Myxos, nearly half 
of which are new African records. The dry season has 
stopped this work for the present and I have in consequence 
taken to the insects.” 
And later in the same letter, referring to the suggestion 
that he should join the Entomological Society :— 
“There is no withstanding Dr. Lamborn, and under 
his inspiration I may manage to do something which 
will enable me with less unworthiness to join the Entomo- 
logical.” 
Although Lamborn and Farquharson were only together 
for twelve months, the inspiration of which he spoke 
remained and grew with every fresh discovery and was 
strongest in the last year of his life. His original observa- 
tions in this short period were described in eighty closely 
packed quarto pages, written between September 9, 1917, 
