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  ANNUAL 
  ADDRESS 
  TO 
  THE 
  MEMBERS 
  

  

  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  South 
  Conbon 
  (tntomologital 
  ant) 
  |latural 
  pistoru 
  

  

  Societi). 
  

  

  Read 
  Januartj 
  28th, 
  1919, 
  

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

  

  GENTLEMEN, 
  having 
  heard 
  the 
  Council's 
  Keport 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  

   notwithstanding 
  the 
  difficulties 
  created 
  by 
  the 
  war, 
  we 
  may 
  

   congratulate 
  ourselves 
  on 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  during 
  the 
  

   past 
  year. 
  The 
  weather 
  of 
  last 
  summer 
  was 
  disappointing 
  for 
  

   collecting 
  ; 
  several 
  insects 
  were 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  abundant, 
  especially 
  

   Tortrix 
  riridana, 
  and 
  Hihernia 
  defoUaria, 
  whose 
  larvfe 
  played 
  havoc 
  

   with 
  the 
  trees 
  in 
  spring, 
  but 
  many 
  good 
  varieties 
  of 
  Agriades 
  coridon 
  

   and 
  A. 
  thetis 
  have 
  been 
  captured. 
  

  

  Obituary 
  for 
  1918. 
  

  

  F. 
  de 
  Vismes 
  Kane, 
  born 
  in 
  1840, 
  died 
  in 
  1918, 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  

   member 
  of 
  our 
  Society 
  since 
  1886, 
  he 
  was 
  also 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  

   Royal 
  Academy 
  of 
  Science 
  of 
  Dublin 
  and 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  

   Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  London. 
  He 
  published 
  an 
  up-to-date 
  

   guide 
  to 
  the 
  butterflies 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Palaearctic 
  Region 
  in 
  1885, 
  

   also 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  Ireland, 
  continued 
  from 
  

   1893-1901. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  frequent 
  contributor 
  to 
  the 
  " 
  Irish 
  

   Naturalist." 
  His 
  work 
  on 
  " 
  European 
  Butterflies 
  " 
  has 
  been 
  some 
  

   time 
  out 
  of 
  print, 
  but 
  he 
  had 
  given 
  permission 
  to 
  our 
  member 
  

   Mr. 
  Rowland-Brown 
  to 
  revise 
  it 
  and 
  bring 
  it 
  up 
  to 
  date. 
  

  

  R. 
  S. 
  Standen, 
  who 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  Life-member 
  since 
  1878, 
  was 
  very 
  

   seldom 
  at 
  our 
  meetings 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  few 
  years 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   distance 
  of 
  his 
  residence 
  from 
  town, 
  but 
  formerly 
  he 
  was 
  a 
  very 
  

   regular 
  attendant, 
  and 
  was 
  President 
  in 
  1879. 
  

  

  A. 
  C. 
  Vine, 
  who 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  member 
  since 
  1889, 
  lived 
  at 
  Brighton, 
  

   and 
  had 
  made 
  a 
  line 
  collection 
  of 
  Lepidoptera 
  from 
  that 
  district. 
  

  

  