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Mr. (now The Venerable) J. M. Wilson for the substantial addition 
to my happiness that their instruction provided. Unable to collect 
insects I took to flowers instead, and spent my half-holidays in 
working for the prize collection. Here again, as with moths, I had the 
advantage of a book without pictures, Bentham’s “ British Flora/’ In 
the holidays I again worked the Common (getting Nemeophila russula 
and Anticlea rubidata), as well as Coombe Wood and Darenth. A 
July visit to Lyndhurst, my first considerable purely entomological 
expedition, afforded new experiences. What a glorious sight it 
was to see Argynnis adippe and paphia flying about the bramble 
blossoms! The last named was in profusion. Then there were in 
denser parts Leucophasia sinapis weakly flitting over the herbage, 
and, even more beautiful, old Haworth’s favourite, that “ elegant fly,” 
Limenitis sibylla , tastefully coloured and with gliding flight of grace 
incomparable. A later visit to Tunbridge Wells, where I again met 
Mr. Cooper, is best remembered by a few nights spent at Hever 
Castle. This appealed strongly to my boyish imagination, and I did 
not perhaps entirely disbelieve the legend of the hapless Anne 
Boleyn’s headless apparition. Sleeping at one end of the “long 
gallery,” my mother at the other, it happened that late at night 
I had to go to her room to get something or other. I started 
somewhat nervously to traverse the long gallery by the dim light of 
a chamber candle; when half way along an owl swooped down 
upon me and almost extinguished my light. For the moment 
poor Anne’s ghost was a reality. But, in spite of owls and ghosts, 
how I did enjoy catching perch in old Sir Thomas Boleyn’s 
moat! 
After I had been at Bugby rather over a year I screwed up 
courage to face the jibes of the boys, and began to collect insects. 
To elude observation as far as possible, my net was carried in my 
pocket, the ring thereof round my waist, and its stick, in three 
joints, carried in a purpose-made pocket, for a Median statute 
forbade any boy below the Sixth Form to carry a walking-stick. 
With these precautions I did fairly well, getting such insects as 
Macroglossa fuciformis, common at flowers of Bugle and Bagged Bobin, 
Emmelesia albulata , Eupithecia lariciata, Asthena sylvata , Boarmia 
abietaria and Hydrocampa stagnalis. That June the only specimen 
of Ino statices that I ever saw alive fell to my net. 1 An interesting 
incident of quite different character appears in my diary. The local 
magistrates had furbished up the parish stocks and naturally 
itched to make use of them. A worthless fellow got drunk and 
1 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine , Vol. III., p. 138. 
