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OBITUARY YOTICE. 
lepidopterist of his time has had the pleasure of adding so 
many novelties to our list, or of working up so many rare 
and little known species. 
The treasures of his duplicate boxes, and the still greater 
treasures of his vast experience, he placed freely at the disposal 
of every earnest collector with whom he came in contact. 
The writer will never forget the large-hearted generosity with 
which Mr. Barrett encouraged him — then an enthusiastic 
boy — to pick whatever he liked from store boxes that seemed 
inexhaustible, and introduced him freely to his choicest 
collecting grounds. 
As a writer, Mr. Barrett was indefatigable, but during the 
greater part of his life he was deterred by want of opportunity 
from anything more ambitious than articles in magazines, or 
the Transactions of our own Society. To the latter he con- 
tributed eight articles, including the valuable list of Norfolk 
Lepidoptera. During the earlier years of his life he wrote 
several articles for the ‘ Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer’ 
and the ‘ Zoologist,’ while in the Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine,’ of which he was an editor for many years, his name 
appears as the author of no less than 330 contributions. Of 
these the Notes on Tortrices, published at irregular intervals 
are perhaps the most important. His great work on British 
Lepidoptera was commenced in 1892, and has reached the 
ninth volume. Deeply as we regret that its completion must 
pass into other hands, it is a matter for congratulation that 
Mr. Barrett has left notes sufficient for Vol. x., carrying the 
subject down to the end of the Tortrices. 
Mr. Barrett’s death will be felt in other than scientific 
circles ; his energy was prominently displayed in the cause of 
temperance, and in the religious work of the Wesleyan Denomi- 
nation, of which he was a member ; while those of us who were 
privileged to work with him, and to enjoy his personal friend- 
ship, feel that we have sustaingcj 94^ ^reparable loss. 
8 SEfi 1906 F ' D ' W ' 
