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received an order from the Leeds School Board to fit up 600 small cases 

 to give as prizes to the school children. These cases, some of which are 

 before you, are remarkably clieap, and I think they only require to be 

 known to school managers to ensure a wide circulation. You may feel 

 sure it afforded me great gratification when ]Mr. Mosley told me some 

 montlis ago that the inspection, twenty years ago, of my Educational 

 Collection of Insects, which, I believe, was the first of tlie kind ever 

 made, led him to the formation of these Educational and Life-History 

 Collections for which he is so famous. Mr. Robert Newstead, another 

 of our honorary members, has done much valuable work. We all 

 appreciate the original papers he has read before our Society, and the 

 interesting exhibits he has so frequently provided. He was appointed 

 curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, in the summer of 1886, 

 when he commenced to work up the life histories of injurious insects, 

 and has already provided the museum Avith sixty cases, each exliibiting 

 one life-history. These have proved of great value as a teaching collec- 

 tion, and are much appreciated by the general public. In working out 

 the injurious scale insects (Coccidce), he found it impossible to make any- 

 thing like headway with, them without giving special attention to the 

 Order ; this he has done, and published in the Enioviologist's Monthly 

 Magazine, from time to time, descriptions of new species, species 

 new to Britain, and new facts relating to these insects. Several 

 of the new and rare species are from the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 district, but the species cover a wide area. Indeed, he is at 

 present helping Mr. Cockerell in working out the Jamaica species. 

 As a lecturer on Economic Entomology, Mr. Newstead Ijegan in 1888 

 to give a series of lectures, at first on General Entomology, but in the 

 year 1890, the committee of the Museum formed a Fruit and Vegetable 

 Culture Class, at which he gave a course of instruction on the pests 

 affecting these crops. In 1892 he delivered a series of lectures for the 

 Cheshire County Council on " Fruit Pests," at ten centres in Cheshire, 

 and these were so successful, that they have engaged him to deliver 

 some 37 lectures on " Economic Entomology." A few weeks ago I had 

 great pleasure in inspecting tlie local collections of insects at tlie Chester 

 Museum, where I found Mr. Newstead. In addition to the work done 

 and alread}^ described, he had also been an active collector ; and, since 

 he had been at the Museum, he had added about 1,000 local species 

 collected by himself, consisting — for the most part — of the Orders 

 Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hy3ienoptera and Homoptera. — My 

 address, I fear, has been of a somewhat rambling nature, but I 

 hope some of the subjects brought before your notice will be thought 

 worthy of serious consideration and discussion. I would, before I 

 close, congratulate our Society on its very healthy condition. It is 

 satisfactory, at the close of its 16 years history, to be able to state that 

 it never w^as in such a prosperous condition. The attendance has been 

 numerous ; the pajiers read, quite equal to those of the jiast ; the dis- 

 cussions — in which more members joined — consideralily improved ; 

 whilst, we never before had so many interesting exhilnts. There is 

 but one source of sorrow, and that is the great loss we have sustained 

 through death of two of our members. Mr. Francis Archer, who died 

 at his residence, 21, Mulgrave Street, Liverpool, February 29th last, 

 after a week's illness, was one of the first members who joined our 

 Society. He had not latterly attended many of our meetings, but he 

 always took a deep interest in our prosperity. He was a born natural- 



