74 MR. F. D. PALMER ON OLD-TIME YARMOUTH NATURALISTS. 
Charles J. Paget (contributed by bis brother, Sir James 
Paget, Bart., F.R.S.). Charles John Paget was born in January, 
1S11, and died in March, 1844. His devotion to Natural History 
may be thought to have been inherited from his mother ; for she 
collected and kept in orderly arrangement shells and corals, and 
many other natural objects, and encouraged the study of them, so 
far as she could, in all her children. From her, too, he seemed 
to inherit the artistic skill which made Natural History the more 
attractive to him, and which was sustained by friendship with 
the Cronies of Norwich, and with John Bell, his fellow-pupil at 
Bowles’ school, who became the celebrated sculptor of the Crimean 
monument in Waterloo Place. He began collecting plants and 
insects in early boyhood ; and among the water-colour drawings 
which he left, are some of Butterflies and Moths, made when ho 
was only eleven years old, truly admirable both in likeness and 
skill of colouring. At first he merely collected and kept these 
in good order, but in a year or two, he gave up plants, and studied 
“Insects” in Kirby and Spencer’s ‘ Entomology,’ and such other 
books as he could get. And now, he not only collected but named 
and arranged every species that he could find ; and admired each, 
not only for beauty, but even more for rarity and local interest, 
and these to the number of 750 species. Gradually his zeal 
was increased by correspondence and mutual exchange with such 
other active entomologists as Sparshall, Hooker, Cliawens, and 
especially with the very distinguished author of the ‘ British 
Entomology,’ John Curtis, to whom he owed the honour of having 
his name given to a new species which he had discovered. It is figured 
and described as Agrypnia pagetarus, “ The Yarmouth Grammon 
or May-fly,” in the twelfth volume of the £ British Entomology 
(pi. 540, 1835); Mr. Curtis says of it: “I have named it after 
my friend, C. J. Paget, Es<p, who took it off some rushes in a salt 
marsh between Yarmouth and Caister, the 14th August, 1833.” 
The plant which is illustrated with it is the Frankenia Jams, at 
that time much more common near Yarmouth than it is now. 
And, in a note in the ‘Natural History’ (pp. xxi. and 34), it is 
said that the insect was caught “by sweeping the short herbage 
with a strong bag-net.” This was one of the methods of capture 
which ho invented or adopted ; for ho always looked earnestly for 
the opportunities of getting the insects that were attracted by the 
