THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIL] MARCH, 1894. [No. 370 



THE NEW ENTOMOLOGY.* 

 By W. E. Shakp. 



Nearly twenty years have elapsed since the members of this 

 Society were privileged to listen to the first of its President's 

 Addresses. Since that day members have come and gone, the 

 Society has shared in the mutations inevitable in human affairs, 

 and very few of those I see around me to-night were, I think, 

 present on the occasion of that Inaugural Address. But we all 

 know that, year by year, since then we have heard an annual 

 compendium of entomological progress, and an epitome of what- 

 ever notable achievements each year has brought. 



You will therefore readily appreciate my difficulty in adding 

 to such a series, and I trust extend to me your forbearance in 

 the task laid upon me ; for to worthily follow such a part, and 

 tell you, as our President would have done, all that might be 

 worth telling of the result of the labours of the entomological 

 world, now so large and so enterprising, during the year 1893, 

 is, as I am only too conscious, a work beyond my powers. 



With your permission, then, I will take a more general survey, 

 and allow myself to dwell this evening on the wider and more 

 abstract subject of the present position of entomological science. 

 And I am the more disposed to bring this matter before you be- 

 cause I think that, to any one at all conversant with the progress 

 of Entomology, it must be aj)parent that of recent years that 

 study has assumed a wider horizon, and taken to itself new 

 and perhaps even more fascinating methods. 



We are all of course aware that Entomology is at best but a 

 partial science, that it is in reality a small fragment of the great 

 Science of Biology. Yet Entomology and Entomologists existed 

 before ever Biology, under that name, was invented ; and it is, 



* Annual Address delivered before the Entomological Society of Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire, January 8th, 1894. 



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