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trace of impatience. As an entomologist he had studied most 
of the orders in a general way, while giving preference to the 
Lepidoptera. For this order he contributed many local records 
to Mr. W. E. Brady’s ‘List of the Macro-Lepidoptera of 
Barnsley,’ which was published in the ‘Transactions of the 
Dr. W. M. Burman. 
Barnsley Naturalists’ Society,’ 1883-1885. He devoted some 
considerable time to sericulture, and had reared most of the 
silk-producing Bombyces. For the last twenty years he had 
paid a good deal of attention to the Coleoptera, and at various 
times had spent a holiday at many of the famous collecting 
grounds, such as the New Forest (where he was successful in 
taking Anthaxia nitidula), Braunton Burrows, etc., ete. 
Of the two orders mentioned, he had made fairly good 
collections, while Hymenoptera, Diptera, Arachnida, and 
Naturalist, 
