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“He was keenly interested in animated nature and 
from time to time had asked concerning the habits of the 
numerous insects he had seen. But his first active interest 
in Entomology was, I believe, awakened by the discovery 
of beetles in various instars in some of his beloved fungi, 
the Polyporeae. An examination of some Lamellicorn 
larvae in the fungi led to a discussion of the habits 
of the group as a whole, and the natural agencies which 
might limit the numbers of insects in general. He had 
not heard of the various parasites, or of the ways of the 
Fossorial wasps; and a long talk induced us to sit, as I 
well remember, being very contrary to my fixed habits in 
the Tropics, well into the small hours of the night. 
‘Of a romantic nature, he revelled in the study of the 
romance of insect life, and at about that time I was so 
fortunate as to throw some light on the value in sexual 
selection of the wonderful mandibular processes of the 
Eumenid Synagris cornuta Linn [Report, Brit. Assoc., 
1913, p. 511]. Thereafter Farquharson vied with me in 
the study of the Hymenoptera, working still harder 
during leisure hours, and joining me in my laboratory 
after the evening meal, so that we could compare and 
discuss the results of excursions made together on Sundays, 
and independently on week days. 
“The habits of Lycaenidae, the most interesting of all 
butterflies both as larvae and imagos, then claimed his 
attention : for I was able to show him various ant-attended 
and predaceous larvae, and therefrom originated the 
splendid new discoveries concerning the group with which 
his name must always be associated. 
“Farquharson was a most versatile and widely read 
man. He had a sound knowledge both of French and 
German, and was familiar with the Classics, having a 
pleasing little habit of capping remarks, often in letters, 
with an appropriate quotation in Greek or Latin. He 
had in addition that broad general foundation of scientific 
knowledge which seems so especially to be built up by 
the teaching of the Scottish Universities, enabling him to 
turn with equal readiness to the study of the sciences 
both of Mycology and Entomology. 
‘ His premature loss must be a bitter blow to Mycology, 
but, as a student of insects realises, especially to Entomo- 
logy in the African Tropics, for far more investigation, 
on the West Coast particularly, is now called for to 
