THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



In compliance with the precedent abeady estabhshed, 

 I have prepared a few remarks upon the work accompUshed by 

 the Society during the past year, together with a reference to 

 other matters interesting to Entomologists. 



As regards the number of our members and the state ol 

 our finances, the Society has made satisfactory progress. The 

 monthly meetings have been kept up, and the interest in them 

 sustained by a large number of interesting collections exhibited. 

 The information diffused on such occasions is often extremely 

 valuable. 



During the last few days the interests of the Society in all 

 its functions have been very materially affected in the lamented 

 decease of our friend and member William Sharp MacLeay, Esq. 

 The assistance ever so readily afforded by one, whose knowledge 

 of natural history in all its branches was so extensive and 

 accurate, was an advantage to our infant Society which cannot 

 be over estimated ; and the loss of that assistance is a correspond- 

 ing misfortune. The event itself is so recent, the loss so great, 

 and the memory of very many acts of kindness which I have 

 personally experienced at his hands so fresh in my mind, that 

 I feel quite unable to offer that worthy tribute to his memory, 

 which common justice towards one so distinguished, as well as 

 the wishes of the members of our Society, requires of the Presi- 

 dent for the year. It will long be accounted an honour to the 

 Entomological Society of New South Wales that its first list 



