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being performed there. By the end of November they 

 were in Holland, and, after a number of visits to the 

 principal towns of Holland and Belgium, reached Lon- 

 don again on the 1 3th of December. 



I have given some space to the account of my father's 

 two years abroad, because they were something more 

 than a passing phase in his life. He never forgot the 

 fascination of foreign scenery and architecture, the 

 delight and freshness of collecting exotic creatures, and 

 the manifold experiences of his travels, especially in 

 Egypt and Syria. He used to speak of these with 

 a pleasure which seemed always alive, and his travels 

 gave a reality and interest to his life-long correspon- 

 dence with foreign naturalists and his continual work 

 at exotic collections sent to him by them and others. 

 A permanent memorial of his voyage in Palestine sur- 

 vives in the representation of our Lord's empty tomb 

 in the east window of Bloxworth Church, which was 

 based on his sketch of one of the c Tombs of the Kings ' 

 near Jerusalem. 



The collection of Left 'dopt era made in Palestine con- 

 tained many new species, some of which were described 

 afterwards by Zeller and Stainton, and others by 

 Lederer, but the latter's descriptions were never pub- 

 lished. A c first set ' of all the insects was given by him 

 to Canon Tristram, then compiling the Fauna of Pales- 

 tine^ in return for a handsome contribution to the fund 

 for rebuilding the chancel of Bloxworth Church and 



