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in his frequent letters to correspondents he often conveyed much 

 useful information. His joy was to see the living creature in the 

 field, and to this end he made many arduous journeys both in this 

 country and in Canada. In this wise, some thirty-six years ago, he, 

 in company with the late W. H. Tugwell, set out for Aberdeenshire 

 in search of the then little known Zygaena exulans, and not only 

 found the species freely, but brought back much useful information 

 as to its locality and habits (see ' Entom.,' vol. xix, p. 217). Again, 

 soon after Lycaena avion was turned up in Cornwall, he wrote to the 

 present writer from Montreal that he was coming over by a certain 

 boat and would meet him in Exeter on a specified evening. " I must 

 see that big blue alive," he wrote. We met in Exeter; we, thanks 

 to friends we fell in with, found the " big blue,' 1 indeed, we took 

 quite a number in the one day that we were able to devote to it, and 

 by the evening he had posted the majority of them alive to friends at 

 a distance who, as he said, had not the opportunity of seeing the 

 species for themselves. That was the man ! it was never any 

 question of exchange with him, he simply wished to give his friends 

 a share in his own delights. 



It was in the spring of last year, while on one of his usual visits 

 to Canada, that he was stricken with the disease that ultimately 

 proved fatal, but on his return to this country, although in an 

 enfeebled condition, the call of the wild was too strong to be resisted, 

 so he set forth for the scenes of his early pleasure with his grandson, 

 a lad of twelve years. They went to Braemar and again found 

 Zygaena exulans, they crossed to Argyleshire and got Z. achilleae, 

 and returned much elated with their success, but it was the last trip 

 he was to make. 



He was elected a Eellow of the Entomological Society of London 

 in 1913, having previously, in 1884, joined the South London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society, and was its frequent 

 benefactor. 



It was but a short time before his death that he called the 

 present writer to his bed-side ; he was too weak for any lengthy 

 conversation, but he said, " Do encourage the youngsters to take up 

 entomology ; it has been such a help to me." So he passed away in 

 peace, and will be missed by a large circle of friends both on this and 

 the other side of the Atlantic. E. A. 



