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list as well as others new to Essex.
A member of the same circle was the Rev. G. H. Raynor,
vicar of Hazeleigh, a district south-west of Maldon.
His "Entomology at Hazeleigh (Essex)" was published in
The Entomologist's Record in 1899. Another neighbour
was E. A. Fitch, a leading member of the Field Club in
its early days. In the Essex Naturalist for 1891 he
had a paper entitled "The Lepidoptera of Essex, 1.
Butterflies", a comprehensive and scholarly account
of their history in the county; he promised future
instalments to cover the moths. These never appeared,
although he was certainly working on them since Burrows
notes more than once in his diary "records sent to
Fitch". The reason for this apparent dereliction rests
with our next entomologist.
William Harwood was born at Colchester in 1840. After
education at Colchester Grammar School, he was embarking
on a career as a chemist when poor health led his
doctor to recommend outdoor employment. This suited
Harwood admirably since his passion was entomology.
Accordingly he became a professional entomologist,
collecting and rearing insects for sale to collectors
who, before the days of the car, had few opportunities
to tour in search of rarities. Though he wrote little
in his early years, he became an established authority
on the early stages of insects and is often quoted by
contemporary entomological authors. When at the end
of the 19th century the Victoria County History of Essex
was planned, Harwood was the obvious choice as author
of the section on insects in general and Lepidoptera in
particular. There is little doubt that Fitch sent his
notes to Harwood and that is why his promise was never
fulfilled. Harwood's list appeared in 1903 and was
the only comprehensive list of the Lepidoptera of Essex
until the 1970's.
Another collector who lived in the north-east of the
county was Gervase Mathew, who settled at Dovercourt