were found dead together in the morning, and the husband fled to his own country and never returned.
In May, 1876, I returned to England, and had a most uncomfortable passage in a small and overcrowded steamer, having been unable to get a berth in either the P. and O. or the Mcssageries Maritimes, which were then the most comfortable boats. In the Bay of Biscay we had a very heavy gale from the North-East, against which we could make no headway for the greater part of three days, and as all the fires were put out by the sea the position at one time seemed very critical.
The year after his return home Elwes moved to Preston House, Cirencester, where he lived for fourteen years. He took over the management of the farms on the Colesborne estate that had been given up by tenants owing to the agri¬ cultural depression, and he soon became as keenly interested in farming and sheep-breeding as he was in his purely scientific pursuits. About this time, too, he began to study entomology, specialising in the butterflies of Europe and Asia, of which he rapidly built up a very large collection.
