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ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



OF THE 



Soutb ITonbou (l-ntomo|ogital uub llaturiii .^istor]; 

 Society. 



Read January '2oth, 1917. 

 By Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



IT is usual for the member, whom you annually select to preside 

 over your meetings for the year, to give in the Address, which 

 the Bye-laws state that he shall make, a few words on the 

 state and progress of the Society. As you have already had a more 

 or less detailed report of this from the Council I need only say that 

 all our activities have been l^ept going and even our field-meetings 

 have been successful. There is however one other item of our 

 work, which I cannot pass over, and that is the admirable volume 

 of Proceedings which the Society has published, probably the best 

 of its series, and for which so many active members in one way and 

 another by their mutual help and mutual confidence have had a 

 share in perfecting. 



There is another duty and that a ?ad one: to enumerate those 

 who have passed. 



We all knew Fred Enock, many a time has he entertained us in 

 this room with his inimitable expositions of insect life-histories. 

 We had thought to see and bear him again, but with enfeebled 

 health and more than 70 years of a strenuous life he passed away 

 in quiet retirement at Hastings. 



Chas. A. Briggs, was scarcely known to most of those who now 

 attend our meetings, but a quarter of a century ago and more he 

 was a most active and enthusiastic member, whose hospitality those 

 present at a field meeting more than once enjoyed. Although for 

 years past he had lived at Lynmouth, he still retained his love for the 

 Society and kept up his membership to the day of his death, at the 

 age of 65. 



