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AN OLD SUFFOLK NATURALIST.
attitude (Fig. 6a) is peculiar : the hind legs are held straightly under the abdomen, and the M o t h has the habit of rolling its wings round into a tiny cylinder which is held out at right angles to the body, as if it were pointing with a finger in two opposite d i r e c t i o n s : hence the significance of another kind's name, rnonodactylus i.e. one-fingered. T h e males (Fig. 8, genitalia X 50, after Pierce), seem to be much more numerous than the females : out of twelve imagines, taken in flight on two successive nights, all were males. T h e venation (Fig. 7, X 10) is of special interest for, in spite of the deep fissures in the hind wings, the nervures (numbered) retain their noimal form. FOOD-PLANT (Fig. 5, nat. size, showing bracts) is exclusively Coltsfoot Tussilagofarfara, Linn., a widely spread plant and a weed difficult to eradicate.
AN
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SUFFOLK BY HIS
NATURALIST.
SON.
MR. GARRETT GARRETT was born in Ipswich during 1808, son of J a c o b Garrett (1774-1833) of St. Margarets Green there. He was educated at Ipswich Grammar School in Foundation-street, under Dr. Riguad. And to him his father bequeathed the iron-works occupying no. 14-16 Cobbold-street in St. M a r g a r e t s ; he is described as iron merchant, though living in Victoria-terrace there in 1846 PO. Directory, but the firm is named as Elizabeth Garrett and Son, St. Margarets-green, in White's Directory of 1844, so presumably his mother died in 1845. His two sisters shared the partnership with him, who carried on the business of iron ' gate, palisade, &c, manufacturers ' at their desire though his heart was in scientific pursuits. ' If my father had been really interested in his trade, he could have been very successful, as his was the only such works in Ipswich when he took it over : no Ransomes, no T u r n e r s or Masons at that time. But he left the business to the mismanagement of a manager who, I fear, looked after himself and caused my father's failure : a case of the Square man in round hole,' his son considers in lit. White shows that by 1874 he had been replaced as owner by John Cooper and Co., ironfounders of the same address in St. Margarets, who in 1885 were still at no. 14 though now termed wheelwrights ; when ' M r . Garrett Garrett of 30 Palmerston-road ' is among Ipswich's principal inhabitants. T h a t year there were in the town also M r . John Garrett of Newtonroad and Abiather Garrett, corn-merchant's manager, of 45 Tanners-lane ; Jarrold's Direct. Ipswich 1890 shows Ilerman of