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ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. IV. 



[VOLUME XXIX]. 



HENRY TIBBATS STA.INTON, F.E.S., &c. 



Henry Tibhats Stainton died at his residence, Mountsfield, LewisLam, 

 on December 2nd, 1892, in his 71st year (he having been born on 

 August 13th, 1822), after a lingering illness of many months' duration, 

 happily without pain, but attended with constantly increasing debility, 

 and ending in utter prostration and collapse ; yet he retained his 

 mental faculties clear to the last. It is with the profoundest sorrow 

 we announce this severance of a long friendship and association, 

 in the one case enduring for 50, and in the other for 35, years : the more 

 intimately he became known the more he was endeared by the sterling 

 qualities of his character. Never of a robust constitution, he had on 

 the whole fair health, although it was interrupted at times by tem- 

 porary indisposition ; his mental energy was great, he revelled in 

 work, and was never more happy than when fully occupied. After 

 being educated at home, and finally at King's College, he was engaged 

 for some years in commercial occupations, and thus acquired and 

 confirmed the habits of accuracy of observation, method and punc- 

 tuality which characterized him throughout his life. He had a deep 

 conviction of the value of time, and up to the beginning of his last 

 illness he exemplified his advice to others and used to rise at 5 o'clock 

 in the morning, and thus much of the best of his study and work 

 was done before breakfast. 



