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their lives, and fill their allotted positions, before they take 
a more permanent place in the museum or the cabinet.” 
It goes without saying that such a man took a wide interest 
in Natural History as a whole, and had a very practical 
knowledge of many of its branches ; he was even somewhat 
of a specialist in Conchology and in Field Botany ; but it 
was to the Lepidoptera that he specially devoted his attention, 
and among these he made the Tortrices his favourite family, 
though he did excellent work also in clearing up some of the 
difficult groups of the Crambites. It is perhaps not too much 
to say that he stood in a class by himself as an authority on 
the Tortricina. 
As a collector, Mr. Barrett was singularly “ lucky.” Luck, 
in such pursuits, persistently follows the man who combines 
the independence of mind which leads him to think for himself 
with patient and enthusiastic work. At every fresh post he 
1 occupied, Mr. Barrett discovered novelties or rarities : Dublin 
yielded Lithosia canjola, Dianthoecia capsophila, /). barrettii. 
and Gelechia tarquiniella. Haslemere, among many notable 
captures, furnished him with the specimens of the lovely 
Madopa salicalis, with which he supplied nearly all the great 
collections of his day. At Norwich, lie captured, almost in 
the city itself, that great rarity Hydrilla palustris. and added 
to the British fauna such species as Sericoris doublcdayatui and 
Phoxopteryx paludana. At Pembroke, a rather disappointing 
locality, he yet re-discovered the lost Diasemia litcralis, and 
filled our series with this little beauty, which comparatively 
few knew even by sight, besides differentiating Botvs 
• stachyddlis , of which many specimens already existed in 
cabinets mixed with B. sambucalis. At Lynn, though now 
too fully occupied with official duties to devote much time 
to entomology, he discovered, in conjunction with Mr. Atmore, 
the fine Eupithecia extensaria, which had previously a very 
doubtful claim to a place on the British list. Even in 
London, he captured such rarities as Sterrha sacraria in his 
early days, and in his second stay, Bo/ys lupulinalis , besides 
making known the habits and haunts of many obscure 
Crambites feeding upon grocers’ stores, &c. Certainly no 
