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of judgment were of the greatest importance, and usually led him 

 straight to the desired goal. 



It was the writer's good fortune to spend a few weeks at Hyeres 

 during one of " The Doctor's " visits to that resort ; and he vividly recol- 

 lects the walks and talks we had, and his wonderful powers of observa- 

 tion. Nothing seemed to escape his notice, and upon everything 

 discussed or seen he had thought deeply. First a busy stream of ants 

 we passed on the path attracted his attention ; then it would be the 

 burrow of a trap-door spider in a sandy bank ; the cryptic attitude of a 

 mantis ; or some striking peculiarity in the structure of a flower : 

 about all of these and others he would point something of absorbing 

 interest ; to him all Nature was an open book. I remember wonder- 

 ing if even Darwin could have been more interesting and instructive ! 



Although primarily a lepidopterist, with which order the great 

 bulk of his work was associated, the other orders received at different 

 times a great deal of attention, and on each occasion in which he 

 became interested in a problem affecting them some important 

 and interesting scientific discovery was bound to take place. On 

 one occasion when I called upon him he was deeply interested 

 in the life-cycle of the common earwig, and on the next, the 

 method of oviposition of certain species of the Tentheridce was being 

 studied, and something previously unknown was pointed out. On 

 my last visit he was most anxious I should ascertain the meaning 

 of a remarkable pupal structure of a Pyralid moth he had detected, 

 and had not time to work out. 



Had circumstances led him in the same path as Fabre, he would 

 have been to British Entomology what that fascinating personality 

 was to that of France, but his work would have been far more correct 

 than some at any rate of that of the brilliant Frenchman. 



His entomological work was carried out in a thorough manner, 

 and every detail carefully studied and worked out by his acute and 

 logical mind ; it was always illustrated profusely with explanatory 

 plates, many of them exquisitely drawn and coloured, and costing 

 large sums of money. His assistance to the Entomological 

 Society by the gift of the beautiful plates by which bis papers in the 

 publications were accompanied is attested by a glance through the 

 list of benefactions. Whenever money was required for any purpose 

 in connection with the science he loved so well, an intimation to him 

 was always sure to meet with a generous response. 



Although he collected a great many specimens of the Lepidoptera 

 a collection in the ordinary sense of the word was never made ; his 

 specimens were used for scientific purposes only, and the choicest of 

 them were cut up remorselessly if science demanded it. They were 

 equally at the service of his friends if required for a scientific object. 

 It was in connection with his association with the late J. W. 

 Tutt that a vast amount of his entomological work was done. The 

 association of the two was greatly to the advantage of the younger 

 man, for " The Doctor" in his work, as in everything else, was abso- 

 lutely unselfish ; his sole anxiety in dealing with a scientific problem 

 was that it should be solved : it did not signify to him one iota whether 

 he or someone else solved it, provided it was solved. Conscquenlh 

 a great deal of the work that appears in Tutt's books his co-worker 



