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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



spirit in which his brother had lived and died. Again silence, then rang out 

 in clear and impressive tones f f 13e ye also ready," and in this theme a young 

 man addressed the company in solemn and suitable terms, concluding with a 

 repetition of the words " Be ye also ready." Other addresses followed, 

 then all was over. I have enlarged on the ceremony because many 

 there were deeply impressed, never having been at a ff Friends' " funeral 

 before. 



Nicholas Cooke was 68 years of age, and had been a hard working Ento- 

 mologist for nearly 50 years. He was educated at the "Friends'" school, 

 near York, and was one of the last survivors of that band of practical workers 

 who have made the North of England so prominent in Entomological matters. 

 As a discoverer of species " New to Britain," and for finding in the North of 

 England insects that were formerly considered " Southern species," he and 

 brother Benjamin were unrivalled. They commenced their discoveries almost 

 half a century ago, when on a visit to their Uncle Robson, at New Brighton, 

 they discovered near their back garden the now well-known Nyssia zonaria. 

 Since then he has been one of the most successful in making similar dis- 

 coveries, but he has excelled all his compeers in his persistent following up 

 any slight clue to a species not hitherto known to occur in the north, and of 

 which the locality had been lost. (It must be remembered I am writing of 

 a time long before the days of " Weekly Intelligencers," or " Monthly Maga- 

 zines," and even when correspondence was a slow and costly business.) Thus 

 Scolia/ormis was re-discovered by him. Galii was followed, until the whole 

 coast line from Wallasey to Point of Air had yielded him a rich harvest. 

 Caniola, at Howth, was diligently followed up, and on that journey two new 

 Tortrices rewarded him, and near Warrington he found another and a new Gele- 

 chia. On Rosley Moss he was one of the first to take Lithosia sericea, and 

 C. imbutata, then a very rare moth. At Delemere he discovered C. temerata, 

 previously exclusively a southern species. When there taking II. pennaria, 

 his brother Benjamin took a moth they did not know, he and a friend went 

 " to take some more," sending the first to Mr. Doubleday, at Epping. Word 

 came back " Cheimatobia boreata, new to Britain," and in a month they had 

 specimens enough for all their friends. Carmelita was taken in Cumberland, 

 the next April found him and two friends on its track, successful as usual. 

 A wing of Trepida was found in Petty Pool Wood, and day after day and 

 night after night was spent in its search, until it was no longer rare in our 

 cabinets. Menyanthidis, then exceedingly scarce, next took his attention. 

 Its habits were found not to agree with its name, and it was soon made 

 common. One of his friends bred H. petasitis, from a very young larva 

 found near Manchester. He was invited to Cooke's house to work for the 



