b PRESIDEKT S ADDRESS. 



During the year sixteen Ordinary Members were elected, two reisigned, and 

 one died. In addition, tliree namet- Lave been removed from the list, and news 

 has been received of the decease of one of our members in England. The number 

 of Ordinary Jlembers now on the roll is 159. 



Frederick Moore Clements, an Englishman by birtii. died at Stanmore on 

 19th August, 1920, at the ag'e of 63 years. He spent thei early part of his life 

 in Birmingham, where he ser\-ed his apprenticeship to a chemist. After spending 

 about a year in South Africa, he ciime to Sydney towards the end of 1881. He 

 was elected a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales in 1884, 

 and of tlic Phannaceutical Society of Australasia in 1891. Mr. Clements was a 

 man who attained considerable eminence in his profession, being perhaps best 

 known for his nuxnufacture of Clements' Tonic for which purpose be erected a 

 large factory at Enmore, selling a greater part of his interest to a company in 

 1906. He made a special s-tudy of and took great interest in the application of 

 tleetricity in his profession. Apart from his profession lie was a man of many 

 hobliies, amongst which were included a very keen interest in both botany and 

 ornithology. He was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London 

 (1910), of the Linneau Society of London (1917), and of the Royal Geographical 

 Society of London (1919), and a member of this Society in 1911. His great 

 interest in botany and ornithology is shown by the many rare plants in his tine 

 garden at Stanmore and by his aviary, as well as being retlected in his library. 



Although we never had the privilege of seeing him at our meetings, we know 

 that he took some interest in the Society by retison of his having Ijequeathcd to 

 it tlie scientific portion of his library and two ])ictui-os. This magnificent bei|uest 

 consists of over one hundred volumes on natural science, a list of which is given 

 above (pp. 6, 7), in addition to a large number of medical and electrical works. 



His broad human sympathies are indicated by the wide scope of his bequests 

 to charitable and other institutions, among which may be noted Dr. Barnardo's 

 Homes, The Ragged School I'nion, Tlie National Institute for the Blind, and Tlic 

 Royal Humane Society. 



Thomas de Gray, sixth Baron Walsingham, who became a member of tbis 

 Society in 1892, died on 3rd Deceral)cr, 1919. He was the greatest authority on 

 the Miorolepidoptera of the World, and we take the following summary from 

 Entomological News (May, 1920, xxxi.. No. 5) :— He wiis born in Mayfair, Lon- 

 don, July 29, 1843, went to Eton in 18.50, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 

 ISOO. The University made him l'..A. in 1805, M.A. in 1870, and High Steward 

 and LL.D in 1891. He was a nuMuber ot tiie House of Commons for West Nor- 

 folk, 18G5-1870, .succeeding to tlie title and estates of his father in tlic latter year. 

 He was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum in 1870, and to it be gave his 

 entomological library and collectinns in 19111. These consisted very largely of 

 Lepidoptera, both imagines and larvae, esi)ecially of the Microdepidojitera. 



He Wius elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1887, and was President of 

 the Entomological Society of London, 1889-90. 



The Rev. W. W. Watts was born on 5tli (Ktobcr, 1850, near Ivybridge, 

 Devonshire, England. He was a student at New College, London, for six years, 

 preparing for the Congregational ministry. He was ordained and held a charge 

 at Stratford-on-Avon, but, ill-health having supervened, he came In .Niistralia and 

 settled at Milton. Queensland. The AoihIs of 1893 destroyed both church and 

 house, and he went to New Zealand, whei-e lie began his fii-st studies on ferns and 

 mosses. He w;is resident in New South Wales for many years, and. having be- 



