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death. In 1904, with the other Ten-itorial Entomologists, he left the employ of 

 the Government to join the staff of tlie Experiment Station of the Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Association. Always a prolific writer, during the years of his 

 residence in the Islands the tima at his disposal for systematic work was much 

 greater than ever before, and extensive publications on the Hemiptera resulted. 

 The large amount of material collected by the field-workers of the Experiment 

 Station in Australia, Fiji, China, the Malay Islands, and in parts of North 

 America, fui-nished him with an endless soiu-ce of work. The results have been 

 largely published in the Bulletins of the above-named Experiment Station and 

 in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NeAv Soiith Wales. In these and 

 other papers may be found not only descriptions of hosts of new species and 

 genera, but valuable contribiitions to the general classification and to the life- 

 histories of the Hemiptera. A contribution published in 1902, and a supple- 

 mentary one now in the press, almost completed the working oiit of the 

 material of Hawaiian Hemiptera for the " Fauna Hawaiiensis." In addition to 

 his descriptive work, he prepared various faunistic or other catalogues, and had 

 lately completed the first volvune of a proposed complete catalogue of the 

 Hemiptera of the world — a work for which he was admirably fitted A sub- 

 editor of the " Entomologist," President of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 

 and a member of many other societies, he contributed to the Proceedings of 

 many of these, as well as to a gTeat number of periodicals. A man of strong 

 likes and dislikes, fond of controversy, biit genial and with a strong sense of 

 hiunour, he was always ready to assist his colleagues, even though the task 

 were one that could have possessed little or no interest for him personally. 

 We have no doubt that much of his work will be foiuid to be of a very high 

 order.— E. C. L. P. 



Societies. 



The South London EntomoTjOgical and Natxieal HisTor.T Society : 

 Annual General Meeting, Thursdaij, January 21th, 1910. — Mr. A. Sigh, F.E.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



A satisfactory Balance Sheet was read and adopted as was also the Report 

 of the Council. The President declared the following gentlemen duly elected 

 as Officers and Council for the Session 1910-11 : — President, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. 

 Vice-Presidents, A. Sich, F.E.S., and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Dods. Curator, W. West (Greenwich). Hon. Secre- 

 taries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. (Corresponding), and Henry J. 

 Turner, F.E.S. (Eeport). Council, E. Adkin, F.E.S., S. E Ashby, F.E.S., E. C. 

 Joy, F.E.S., H. Main, F.E.S., A. M. Montgomery, F.E.S., E. A. E. Priske, F.E.S., 

 and B. H. Smith. 



A letter was read from Mr. Kaye, thanking the Society for tlie honor done 

 him, and explaining his absence for the next few months as diie to his having 

 imdei-taken an expedition to Southern Brazil in search of Lepidoptera and 

 evidences for or against mimetic resemblance. The President then read liis 

 address and hearty votes of thanks were passed to the Officers and Council. 



Ordinary Meeting: Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. D. Moi'ford, of Upper Kennington Lane, was elected a Member. 



