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FEBRUAEY 3kd, 11)10. 



The sixtieth regular meeting of the Society was hehl in the 

 nsnal place. 



Vice President Terry read a very interesting letter from 

 the Rev. Thos. Blackburn, and it was voted to incorporate it in 

 the proceedings of the Society. He also informed the members 

 of the death of Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, and, npon motion of Mr. 

 Ehrhorn that a committee of three be appointed by the chair, 

 including the Chairman as a member, to draft proper resolu- 

 tions on the death of Mr. Kirkaldy, he appointed Miessrs. 

 Ehrhorn and Fullaway on the committee. 



Mr. Blackburn's Letter. 



Ivectory, Woodville, Adelaide, S. Australia, 



December 13 1900. 

 D. B. Ivulins, Esq., Secretary Hawaiian Entomological Society: 



Dear Sir: — 1 have to thank you for your letter of 12th 

 ultimo, informing me that the Hawaiian Entomological So- 

 ciety has elected me an Honorary Member of the said Society, 

 and in accepting that membership I beg yon to assure the So- 

 ciety that I am very sensible of the distinguished honour I 

 have received through its vote. 



I have also to thank you for the receipt of a set of copies 

 of the Proceedings, which I am reading with keen interest. I 

 look upon my entomological work on the Hawaiian Islands as 

 the most interesting work that has fallen to my lot in scientific 

 pursuits, and my thoughts often go back to it with no little re- 

 gret that it is ended. Had there been in my time such a band 

 of scientific workers as now compose your Society it would of 

 course have given no little additional zest to my exploration. 



I notice in your Proceedngs occasional reference to the fact 

 of there being species which have not been met with since my 

 time — at any rate not in localities that were visited by me. It 

 may perhaps Ix^ useful in view of the fact if I mention the lo- 

 cality which I found most prolific in Coleoptera at the time I 

 was collecting on Oahu. The lapse of twenty-seven years 

 has perhaps somewhat dulled my memory of the country and of 

 the names of ])articular valleys, but I think I am right in say- 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, No. 4, April, 1912. 



