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and scientific. He was no mere collector of Macro-lepidoptera 

 and showy species, and sometimes spoke with amusement of 

 the " Diurnal and macrolepidopterous frame of mind " of those 

 whom he termed " goodness -gracious naturalists ; " and though 

 for many years he pursued the " macros " with all the arts of 

 the hunter by day and night, and bred them in large numbers, 

 his chief delight certainly from the early eighties onwards 

 was in the smallest moths, for which he worked untiringly, 

 often in company with Mr. Nelson M. Richardson or Mr. 

 Eustace Bankes, whose friendship added greatly to the 

 pleasure of his pursuits, and took the place of his older 

 association with Mr. Frederick Bond and other famous 

 naturalists of the middle of the century, of whom he gave an 

 amusing account in the Entomologist (Vol. XXIX.) entitled 

 " Brockenhurst revisited." He collected, of course, mainly at 

 Bloxworth and in the neighbourhood, which offers a singular 

 variety of localities from its situation at the junction of the 

 heath, the clay, and the chalk. There can be few finer hunting 

 grounds in this County than Bere Wood, Morden Park, and 

 the glorious expanse of Bloxworth Heath. He also worked 

 much at Weymouth and Portland, and in 1895 revisited with 

 great delight the haunts in the New Forest where he had 

 frequently worked forty years before with Mr. Bond. No 

 words can describe the delight fulness of his companionship 

 in a collecting ramble : his always boyish enthusiasm, his 

 knowledge of every kind of bird, beast, and creeping thing, 

 his unselfishness and unfailing fun, made him unlike anyone 

 else. It was always a pleasure to him to give help and en- 

 couragement to younger collectors ; and though he would 

 never have anything to do with exchange of the half- 

 commercial kind which so often prevails among naturalists, 

 he was always ready to give to others, and to work hard to 

 get specimens to give, long after his own set was complete, 

 and it is right to say that many others were equally generous 

 towards him. \ 



He always kept up his interest in the group of problems 

 associated with the names of Darwin and Wallace, with 



