3238. Mr..'C;, QO. ea, ie Five Years’ Observations 
and August 31, 1918 (p. 401), just before he sailed in the 
ill-fated ‘‘ Burutu.” It is a pathetic thought that these 
pages in twenty separate letters, and all the packets of 
specimens illustrating them, should have arrived safely in 
England while the author was lost. 
His consignments of rare and interesting specimens 
were so numerous that it was suggested that the museum 
would gladly bear the expense, but he at once replied: “ Ill 
be only too pleased to send at my own charge. I simply 
wouldn't dream of anything else... . I’m practically a 
non-smoker and a most temperate person too, and I must 
help the revenue somehow. . . . If what I manage to do 
would help to clear up even a very small point of Lycaenid 
relationship I’d consider any personal outlay most amply 
and gloriously rewarded.” 
Thinking of all that he owed to Aberdeen, Farquharson 
was anxious to collect examples of butterfly mimics 
and their models for the Zoological Department of the 
University; for, as he wrote, they ‘‘ might inspire some 
student to do a little as Lamborn did me.” 
The friend of whom he so continually spoke with grati- 
tude has recalled memories of their year together at Moor 
Plantation :— 
“T first met C. O. Farquharson in the spring of 1913 
when I entered the Government service as Entomologist. 
He had completed his first tour of a year, and had just 
returned from leave. 
“Our laboratories, under a common roof, adjoined; 
and a community of interest in scientific work soon put 
us on a very friendly footing. As a worker I found him 
most indefatigable. It was “his practice, almost as soon 
as day broke, to walk round the experimental farm, search- 
ing for and examining fungi of economic importance. 
During the later official working hours of the day he 
devoted himself conscientiously ‘and exclusively to the 
study of material gathered earlier, making microscope 
preparations, preparing cultures, and reading up original 
descriptions; for he had a sound knowledge of modern 
languages. In the early evening, when he might reason- 
ably have rested, or at all events ‘indulged i in some physical 
relaxation, his untiring enthusiasm again led him forth, 
this time to explore the far wider field of the almost virgin 
bush near by. 
