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In 1921, after the resignation of the Rev. G. Wheeler, he resumed the uihce 

 of Secretary', but increasing ill-health compelled his final resignation after a 

 few mouths. Besides serviuji on the Council in 1914-16, he was a Vice- 

 President of tlie Societj in 1908 and 1910. He will also be greatly missed by 

 his associates of the Eutomological Club, of which he was an active and 

 hospitable member. 



llowland-Browu was a man of wide outloolc and sympathies, an able 

 journalist and essay-writer, and the author of more than one volume of light 

 and graceful verse under the pen-name of " Oliver Grey." Among his 

 innumerable friends his immediate neighbour at Harrow Weald, the late 

 Sir W. S. Gilbert of musical fame, held a very high place, and the reminis- 

 cences of their friendship, wdiich appeared recently in the " Cornhill Magazine," 

 was probably the last of his writings. 



Up to about a year ago he was a man of vigorous physique and active 

 habits, and in his youth an athlete of distinction ; but recently heart-trouble, 

 no doubt aggravated by strenuous public work during the war, was the cause 

 of great though patientlv endured suffering. Although a temporary rally a 

 few months ago enabled him partially to resume work, the end came on 

 May 3rd at Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, his residence for many years past. 

 We understand that his extensive collections of Lepidoptera and his entomo- 

 logical library are bequeathed to tlie Entomological Society of London, with 

 remainder to the Oxford University Museum. We tender our most sincere and 

 heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved mother and sister. — J. J. W. 



Thk South London ENroMOLOGiCAi. and Natural Histouy Soc:i';ty: 

 February '2\^rd. — Mr. A. J. Bunnett, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ciieesemau, 30 Clayton Road, S.E., was elected a member. 



An Exliibition of Lantern-slides by members. Mr. Hugh Main, slides 

 illustrating the latest results of colour-photography ; a series of slides illus- 

 trating the life-history of the field-cricket and the Avolf-spider Lycusa. 

 The President, slides of "fairy Hies," and of the tracheae of a beetle. 

 Mr. Syms, slides of the ova of the more local species of British Butter- 

 flies. Mr. Tonge, slides of the ova of a number of British Geometers. 

 Mr. Staniland, slides of the galling of the wild crab by the woolly aphis 

 Erlosonia laniyerum, and of the Syrphid {Syrphus vitripennis). Mr. Withy- 

 combe, a curious fungus growth from a dead ant, a nest of Osmia rvfa in a 

 door-lock, the egg-mass of Empasa pauperata, the life-history of a Conio- 

 l^teryx, etc. 



March 9th, 1922.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., was elected an honorary member. 

 Mr. L. C. Jjushby, of Bromley, and Mr. A. M. Massee, of Sevenoaks, were 

 elected members. ' 



Captam J. Ramsbottom, F.L.S., gave a Lecture on " Symbiosis of Fungi 

 with the Fertilization of Orchids,"' illustrated with lantern-slides and diagrams. 



