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ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



OF THE 



South ITonbon (Entomological unti |laturul f istori| 



Sntktg. 



Read January 22th, 1920, 

 By Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., FZ.S., F.E.S. 



LADIES and GENTLEMEN, the Reports of the Hon. Treasurer 

 and the Council, that have been read, have given you, I 

 think, all necessary information respecting the present status 

 of the Society. I will, therefore, proceed to matters not included 

 in those reports. 



Unfortunately, we have suffered heavy losses of personnel during 

 the past year, owing to deaths : — 



Lord Walsingham, who had been an Honorary Member since 

 1886, was born in 1843. He specialized in the Micro-lepidoptera, 

 of which he amassed a fine collection, Avhich was presented to the 

 Natural History Museum in 1910, together with his library. The 

 majority of the specimens had been collected by himself, but these 

 were reinforced by those of Zeller, Hofmann, and Christoph. He 

 was one of the Trustees of the British Museum, and High Steward 

 of Cambridge University. He contributed numerous papers on the 

 Tineina to the " Trans. Entom. Soc," London ; and wrote on the 

 Pterophoriihr of California and the North American Toitricidae. 

 With Col. Swinhoe he was joint-author of the catalogue of Eastern 

 and Australian Heterocera. His fine collection of larvae on their 

 natural food plants was also presented to the nation. He died of 

 pleurisy. 



W. J. Ashdown, who joined the Society in 1895, was born in 

 1855. Though collecting Coleoptera chiefly, he was interested in 

 most of the other Orders, as shown by the collections bequeathed to 



