Americana 



VOL. III. 



BROOKLYN, FEBRUARY, 1888. 



NO. 11. 



Address of Mr. G. W. J. Angell, the Retiring President 

 of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 



• v Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



The precedent, established by my 

 predecessors in office, calls for an address from me, on retiring from the 

 presidential chair. As a preface to the few remarks I have the honor to 

 lay before you to-night, I would thank you all for the heart}- support 

 and encouragement, which have made my official duties a pleasure, not 

 a burden. To preside over a body, composed of so many different minds, 

 such widelv varying ideas, can be no easy task. Some laws are neces- 

 sary ; too many, but become a burden, and simply serve to clog the 

 wheels in the very work they are framed to aid. I have tried to steer 

 midway, between the rocks of rigid discipline and the hidden dangers oi 

 too great license. The past year has had its full share of cares and dis- 

 couragements. At times we have been face to face with financial struggles 

 il seemed hopeless to grapple with : yet you have bravely put youi 

 shoulders to the wheel and the threatened dangers disappeared. These 

 trying ordeals are safely passed, all clouds of petty strife have faded, and, 

 now to-night we meet together with one thought, one aim ; the love and 

 advancement of our cherished Goddess, Science. Once more we stand 

 on. the threshold of a new year, with little to regret, much to congratulate 

 ourselves upon. To-night I lay aside the duties of official life with 

 mingled feelings of gratitude and regret; yet the mantle of authority has 

 fallen on more worthy shoulders, an abler hand is at the helm ; my loss 

 has been your gain." 



[OLOGIi 1 Amkkicana. Vol.. in. 31 FKintirWHY 188H. 



