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small valley. They were to be taken both by sweeping and on the wing. Unfortu- 

 nately at the time we did not know the rarity of the species, and secured but few 

 specimens. Only one or two examples have occurred at the locality since. The 

 conclusion we came to at the time was that it was attached to sheep dung. — J. H. A. 

 Jennee, 4, East Street, Lewes : August 3rd, 1889. 



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Frederick Bond, F.Z.S., F.E.S., died on August 10th, in his 79th year, after 

 an illness of some weeks' duration. He was the son of a military ofBcer and was 

 intended for the medical profession ; he studied in connection therewith, but it was 

 distasteful to him, and having a small independent income devoted his life to 

 more congenial pursuits. 



By the death of Mr. Bond we have lost one of our most observant and esteemed 

 field-naturalists : a sportsman and naturalist combined. It might be difficult to say 

 which of the two, in his earlier years, was dominant. The love of sport was evident, 

 but so closely was it connected with observation, that we may almost take for granted 

 the naturalist was superior to the sportsman in his character. This was especially 

 marked in his ornithological pursuits, and is demonstrated by his frequent notes on 

 rare British birds and their habits, published in the Natural History journals of the 

 last half century, and their quotation in the most important works on British 

 Ornithology. In Entomology, much the same spirit was manifested. While he was 

 able, he was a most assiduous and observant collector of British Lepidoptera, and 

 his collection, amassed from his own exertions, and from other sources, is probably 

 the most extensive and representative now in existence, because it combines the past 

 with the present, for, until very recently, he seized every opportunity of adding to 

 it, and keeping it au courant. Mr. Bond was essentially of the old type of the 

 British Naturalist. For anything from outside our islands he cared little. And, 

 as has been the case with many others of the same class, much of the knowledge 

 he possessed and stored up dies with him. Not being of a literary turn of mind, he 

 published nothing more than small notes, both in Ornithology and Entomology : on 

 the other hand, no one was more willing to impart his knowledge verbally, or by 

 letter, to his many friends and correspondents. He was more ready with net and 

 gun than with pen and books. His death leaves a distinct blank in another way : 

 until recent years, when increasing deafness rendered conversation difficult, he was 

 noted for his fund of anecdote and quaint humour, and always by his genial 

 countenance, upon which time seemed to make little impression. Mr. Bond was 

 unmarried, and for many years shared his house with a widowed half-sister (who 

 survives him) and her family, and it was probably in connection with this that for 

 a time he resided at Cambridge. His earlier notes date from Kingsbury, in 

 Middlesex, then from St. John's Wood ; subsequently he settled at Staines, where he 

 died. He was one of the oldest Members of the Entomological Society of London, 

 having been elected in 1841, and we think that on the existing list there remain 

 only five who can claim priority. He joined the Zoological Society in 1854. His 

 name is appropriately connected with Tapinostola Bondii, Knaggs, which remains 

 best known as a British insect. A thorough Naturalist and genial friend has passed 

 from amongst us. 



