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which he felt for the masterly instruction which he received. The 

 long list of honours which his students gained, both in London, and 

 afterwards in the Victoria University, prove how successful his 

 teaching was. 



Although for many years a naturalised Englishman, and enjoying 

 and appreciating English freedom and English ways, he retained 

 more than is usual a lively interest in the welfare of the " Vater- 

 land." 



Schorlemmer's name will long be remembered in the annals of our 

 science as an investigator, as an author, and as a teacher. 



H. E. R. 



HENRY TIBBATS STAINTON, who died at Mountsfield, Lewisham, on 

 December 2, 1892, was the eldest son of Henry Stainton, Esq., of 

 Lewisham. He was born in London on August 13, 1822, but was 

 removed to Lewisham when only a few weeks old, and thus practi- 

 cally resided all his life in this now suburban borough. He was 

 educated almost entirely at home, and by a lady, and finally for a 

 short time at King's College, where amongst his companions was 

 Professor Cayley. The regulations of his father's household were 

 very stringent, and young Stainton during the whole of his childhood 

 and boyhood was not allowed to mix with companions of his own 

 age, and to this, and partly perhaps also to extreme myopia, the 

 marked diffidence, amounting almost to shyness, exhibited by him 

 throughout life was probably due. For several years he was 

 engaged in commercial occupations under his father, and thus 

 acquired those habits of method and accuracy that were so marked 

 in his character during the whole of his career, for he never 

 wrote a letter to which there was the slightest possibility at- 

 tached of reference to it being necessary hereafter without hand 

 copying it. About the year 1840 he made the acquaintance of the 

 Rev. William Johnson, a friend of his father, and an ardent col- 

 lector of British Lepidoptera, and it was no doubt from him that he 

 acquired a taste for entomological pursuits, to which he at once de- 

 voted himself with great ardour. From the first his attention as a 

 specialist turned to the small Moths known as Micro-Lepidoptera, 

 and one of his first essays was " A Monograph of the British 

 Argyromiges," published in the ' Zoologist ' for 1848, a work which he 

 was in after years wont to style " most rubbishy." At the commence- 

 ment of his scientific career Stainton discovered that British ento- 

 mologists were not in touch with their fellow-workers on the Conti- 

 nent and elsewhere, and he commenced a correspondence with all the 

 prominent students of his special branch, which as years went on 

 was strengthened by visiting them personally and by inviting them 

 to be his guests at Mountsfield. After the death of James Francis 



