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For nearly 50 years he was in the employ of the engineering firm 

 of John Penn and Son, from which he retired in 1899. He was 

 one of the founders of the Society, and was appointed the first 

 curator of our collections, an office which he held up to the time of 

 his death. Most regular in his attendance at our meetings, he was 

 known to all of us as an indefatigable collector of the Coleoptera 

 and Hemiptera. His collection of the Hemiptera-Homoptera which 

 was exceptionally fine, was presented by him to the Natural History 

 Museum only a few months before his death. Though his know- 

 ledge of these and other orders was great, and always readily placed 

 at the disposal of any one desiring information, he seldom wrote 

 more than short notices of captures. The articles on Coleoptera 

 and Hemiptera for the Survey and Record of Woolwich and West 

 Kent (1909) are from his pen, a large proportion of the records 

 being of his own captures. 



George B. Browne, born in 1851, joined our Society in 1900, 

 but since his removal to Benfleet, about six years ago, was seldom 

 seen at our meetings. A banker by profession, his interests in 

 ■entomology were confined to the Lepidoptera. He was a frequent 

 visitor to Wicken Fen, a portion of which he purchased and eventu- 

 ally transferred to the National Trust. 



Mr, W. Chittenden, though at the time of his death, at the age 

 of 72, in April last, not a member of our Society, was numbered in 

 our ranks from 1888 to 1912. He was a keen collector of British 

 Lepidoptera, devoting his attention mainly to the Noctuida. 



Outside our ranks a number of prominent entomologists have 

 passed away. 



The death of Dr. Charles Gordon Hewitt at the early age of 35, 

 is a serious loss to the economic branch of biological science. He 

 was appointed the first lecturer in economic zoology at the 

 University of Manchester ; and in 1909 he went to Canada as 

 Entomologist to the Dominion ; in 1917 he was appointed Consulting 

 Zoologist to the Canadian Commission of Conservation. In 

 addition to much valuable laboratory and research work he had 

 devoted a great deal of attention to the improvement of legislation 

 to deal with agricultural pests. 



Frank Milburn Howlett was another of our foremost imperial 

 economic entomologists, being at the time of his death Imperial 

 Pathological Entomologist at the Agricultural Research Institute 

 at Pusa, India. 



The Rev. Henry Stephen Gorham, who died in March last at 



