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and in after life enabled him to combat or ignore many critical shafts 
which deeply wounded a most sensitive nature. His first tutor was 
Richard Waddington, a man of considerable literary attainments, who. 
had translated Bodenstedt’s ‘Thousand and One Days in the Hast’ 
from the German. Here the pupil probably imbibed his future love 
of the literature appertaining to the ‘Arabian Nights.’ From 1857 
to 1860 he resided at Brighton, where his education was continued 
under Frederick William Stevens, and about this time he published 

his first entomological writings in the ‘ Entomologist’s Weekly In- 
telligencer.. In 1860 he left Brighton and came to London, and 
during 1864-65 studied Chemistry under Dr. L. W. Wood. In 1862 
he published ‘ A Manual of Huropean Butterflies.’ In 1866 he married 
a young lady of considerable attainments (Johanna Maria Kappel), 
who was during her lifetime a great assistance to him in his literary 
and scientific work. The greater part of 1866 was passed in Germany, 
where he collected insects and plants, and studied German, Italian, 
and Persian. About this time he received an appointment in the 
