OBITUARY. 277 



INSECTA. 



Surrey Odonata. — While angling in the Mole near Horley, on 

 June 16th, I was frequently visited by two females of the beautiful 

 Dragonfly, Calopteryx virgo. The only other record I know of the 

 species on the Mole is given in Lucas's ' British Dragonflies,' viz. : 

 " Eiver Mole, near Leatherhead (W. J. Ashdown)." Last year I 

 found this insect literally swarming in South-west Cornwall, where 

 it is a common species. On Aug. 17th, 1912, I was very surprised 

 to find a fine specimen of JEschna grandis trying to enter my green- 

 house at Norwood. He became a permanent lodger as a cabinet 

 specimen. — W. L. Distant. 



OBITUAEY. 



Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.E.S., LL.D. 



The medical and surgical work of the late Sir Jonathan Hutchin- 

 son has received its great and deserved tribute in the columns of 

 every daily paper, and in many other periodicals. A short notice on 

 Sir Jonathan's interest in Natural History will not be out of place in 

 ' The Zoologist.' 



There is a story that the late King Edward, at the mention of 

 Jonathan Hutchinson's name, many years ago, exclaimed : " Ah, yes, 

 he's the man who keeps a farm for diseased animals." This was 

 hardly the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but there was this 

 much truth in it — that every ailment amongst his animals was of the 

 utmost interest to Sir Jonathan, and that most of them were treated 

 by himself. And it would almost be fair to say that he would have 

 been rather disappointed had his farm supplied him with no inte- 

 resting patients. To learn something from everything, great or 

 small, and to impart his knowledge (in no pedantic manner, be it 

 said) were the two great joys of his life. His only recreation (apart 

 from change of work, which he considered sufficient) was shooting. 

 He liked to wander round his farm with a gun, and occasionally to 

 have a shooting party. Big bags were an abomination to him, and 

 an impossibility on the lines on which those shooting parties were 

 carried out. Halfway across a turnip field some such object as an 

 arrow-head, or a fungus on the leaves, would catch his eye, and those 



