78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



dale went abroad, and appears to have fallen a victim to some 

 tropical malady. But Mr. Tutt used often to refer to this 

 " guide, philosopher, and friend " with veneration, and Cover- 

 dale's communications to the 'Entomologist' in 1885 and the 

 few preceding years show him to have been a man of unusual 

 ability. 



It was at this period that Tutt began to send notes to the 

 * Entomologist,' the earliest being apparently one in 1884 on 

 prolonged pupal duration in Eriogaster lanestris. And very 

 soon after he became the most frequent and voluminous con- 

 tributor, so that it was not long before this outlet for the record 

 of his observations became inadequate, and in 1890 the * Ento- 

 mologists' Eecord and Journal of Variation ' was founded under 

 his editorship. 



During this period also he was very active as a member both 

 of the City of London and South London Societies, and he 

 joined the Entomological Society of London in 1885. He pre- 

 sided over the City of London Society from 1896 to 1899, and 

 over the South London in 1899. He first joined the Council 

 of the Entomological Society in 1897, and, after three further 

 years on the Council, 1908-10, was President-nominate at 

 the time of his death, and would have succeeded to the Pre- 

 sidency had he lived but a few days longer. Meanwhile his 

 work in helping to place its publishing activities on a more 

 business-like basis was of the highest value to the Society, the 

 experience gained by him in the publication of his own numerous 

 works having equipped him with the necessary grasp of a highly 

 technical subject. He was also very active in the South Eastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies, and edited their ' Transactions,' 

 besides enjoying the privileges as Honorary Member of several 

 Foreign Societies. 



His entomological work was extensive and incessant ; besides 

 many lectures and addresses to Societies, he edited the ' Ento- 

 mologists' Eecord ' for twenty-two years, and hardly a number 

 appeared without something from his pen ; the papers extended 

 and republished from these, and from contributions to the 

 'Entomologist,' forming a considerable series, such as the im- 

 portant review of the British Noctuse in four volumes, the papers 

 on Melanism, on the British Pterophorina, on Migration, &c. 

 His ' Practical Hints,' in three volumes, is to a great extent 

 separate from these. It illustrates something of his method of 

 working, and the unstinted labour he must have bestowed in 

 collecting his material. He seems to have explored with meti- 

 culous care the magazines, the various systematic works on 

 Lepidoptera, and, in fact, all accessible published matter, and 

 arranged extracts or made indices, so that he had collected a 

 mass of information available in almost every direction. It was 

 in this way that he successfully brought together the many 



