140 Ln Memoriam—James William Tutt. 
Besides being so keen a student, Mr. Tutt was a most 
energetic and enthusiastic collector in the field. The writer 
firs: met him in Chattenden Woods, Kent, near the place 
(Strood) where Tutt was born, well on to forty years ago, and 
when he was a mere boy ; since which time we have often worked 
together in various well-known entomological localities— 
Wicken Fen, Deal, etc., including Yorkshire, where some years 
ago, as my guest for a few days, I introduced him, to his great 
enjoyment, to some of our well-known collecting districts. 
Of late years he was greatly interested in European Butter- 
flies, and spent his holidays abroad in their pursuit. He 
amassed large collections, all of which, we understand, are 
to be disposed of at Stevens’ Salerooms, in five sales, during 
the next two years. 
Mr. Tutt was buried at the cemetery at eee on 
January 14th, a large number of his entomological friends 
attending to show their token of regard for a man whose loss 
as an entomologist, both to Britain and the Continent, will 
be great indeed. 
Gat aes 
3 OF 
NEW BOTANICAL BOOKS. 
Perhaps next to birds, plants are, now-a-days, the most favourite 
subjects dealt with in popular natural history, and the number of books 
re‘erring to various aspects of botany is continually increasing. As in 
the case of the birds, also, these vary a good deal in quality. From Messrs. 
F. Warne & Co., we have received ‘ Wayside and Woodland Trees,’ 
a pocket guide to British Sylva, by Edward Step, F.L.S. (182 pp., 6/- net). 
This contains no fewer than 175 plates from water colour drawings and 
photographs. Readers of The Naturalist are familiar with the excellent 
way in which Mr. Step does any work he undertakes. The present 
volume is no exception to tiis. Each species is dealt with, and il:ustrations 
are given of tne trees in winter and summer; the boles, leaves, flowers 
and fruits. The present edition contains forty-eight extra plates. It is 
a most useful volume, and is a handy size for the pocket. 
British Ferns and their Varieties, by C. T. Druery, F.L.S., V.M.H. 
(George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 460 pp., 7/6 net) is a volume for which 
we have nothing but praise. It is magnificent. It will appeal alike to 
the expert botanist and to the amateur just beginning to dabble in ‘ nature 
study.’ There is an excellent Introduction, followed by chapters on 
British Ferns as a Hobby; the Life History of Ferns; Fern Propagation 
and Culture ; Selection ; Crossing and Hybridizing ; Multiple Parentage ; 
Rockeries, Frames and Wooden Cases ; Wild ‘ Sports,’ and how found ; 
Types of Variation; Fern Foes and Remedies ; and the details of the 
various and numerous species found in Britain. Each is illustrated by an 
uncommonly large number of fine prints and drawings, there being forty 
coloured plates, ninety-six nature prints, and over three hundred ‘ wood- 
cuts,’ etc. A remarkable feature is the Appendix, containing ‘ ninety- 
six nature prints of fine varieties of British Ferns, selected from some three 
hundred printed from the fronds by the late Colonel A. M. Jones of Clifton.’ 
The book is rather heavy to handle, but this is unavoidable in view of the 
number of plates. 
Naturalist, 
