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THE 



YOUNO lAllEAIiSTi 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Volume XI. 1890. 



CHARLES STEWART GREGSON. 



With the present number is presented a portrait and autograph of 

 Mr. C. S. Gregson of Liverpool. This is given by the veteran ento- 

 mologist himself, to the subscribers to the Young Naturalist, in which 

 he has always taken considerable interest. He has also taken the 

 trouble to attach his own signature to each portrait. Mr. Gregson 

 was born in Lancashire on the 29th May, 181 7 and will therefore soon 

 reach his seventy-third birthday. He is almost the sole survivor of 

 that band of collectors who for more than half a century have made 

 the North of England famous in the annals of Entomology. He is 

 hale and hearty yet, but his eyesight is failing him, and his collection, 

 wonderfully rich in varieties and local forms, has passed into the 

 hands of Mr. Sydney W r ebb of Dover. The time has not come and 

 may it be long before it arrives, when it would be fitting to give any 

 account of his work as an Entomologist. His name however is well 

 known to very many who have never had the pleasure of his personal 

 acquaintance but who will now see his portrait. For many years he 

 has held a weekly " at home" during the winter, when naturalists 

 were welcomed, could have their specimens named, or see the varied 

 collections he had gathered together. Though a British Lepidopterist 

 first, he has also a good collection of birds, and birds eggs, of sea-weeds, 

 and also of European Lepidoptera, and in all these subjects he is 

 ever ready to give such information as was needed. 



