Sn aAMemoriamn. 
JAMES WILLIAM TUTT. 
1858—I19QII. 
Ir is with the greatest regret that we record the death of Mr. 
J. W. Tutt, which took place on January roth last, in the 
fifty-third year of his age. In close connection with the various 
London Entomological Societies, and in contact, either as 
correspondent or by personal acquaintance with almost every 
lepidopterist in the kingdom, probably no entomologist, 
living or dead, was ever so widely known as was Mr. Tutt. 
The work he did, too, in his favourite science, was prodigious ; 
and it was a marvel to everyone as to how he found time to 
get through it. The titles alone of his various papers and 
notes would take a long time to read through, and his numerous 
books are in all our Entomological libraries. Of these latter 
the first were of popular character, and one will not soon forget 
the fascination which the reading of his ‘ Rambles in Alpine 
Valleys,’ “ Woodside, Burnside, Adilede, and Marsh,’ ‘ Random 
Recollections,’ etc., produced. Later his books became more 
scientific, and his ‘ British Noctuz and their Varieties,’ followed 
by his work ‘ British Lepidoptera’ are known to all of us. 
Of this last great work, eight very bulky volumes had already 
been published, and the author was busily engaged on the 
ninth up to the time of his death. 
Twenty-two years ago, too, he started the ‘ Entomologist’s 
Record’ as a monthly journal, and acted as its editor until 
his fatal illness overtook him. In its early years the journal 
shewed strongly the independent and forcible character of 
its editor, and the drastic way in which he characterized the 
writings of some of his fellow students, no doubt caused him 
to be bitterly disliked by several of the older entomologists 
who could not understand that his scorn was vented on their 
theories only, and not on themselves. Indeed, probably no 
one has more severely criticised some of his methods and 
work, both in conversation, and in correspondence with him, 
than the writer of this notice, but Tutt always took it in good 
part, and we remained throughout close and intimate friends. 
That by his sterling value, and high scientific work he had 
lived down all opposition among those who knew him, is shewn 
by the fact that at the time of his death, he was President- 
elect of the Entomological Society of London, and had he 
lived eight days longer would have had that—the highest 
honour to which a British entomologist can attain, conferred 
upon him. 
IQII Mar. is 
