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knowledge. Economic Entomology was a vast field in which 

 practical applications were sought, and sought most successfully, 

 and yet if any one wished for examples of work carried out in 

 the true spirit of science, he could not do better than visit 

 Dr. L. O. Howard at Washington, Prof. W. M. Wheeler at 

 Harvard, Dr. R. C. L. Perkins in Honolulu, or the rooms in 

 our National ^Museum from which Mr. Guy A. K. M.\rsh.\ll 

 inspires and directs the investigations of many a naturalist in 

 Africa. 



For this special reason, as well as for its many other un- 

 rivalled charms, he invited them to drink the toast of " Success 

 to the Science of Entomology." 



He would close in the words of Charles Darwin, who, in 

 a letter to Sir John Lubbock, wrote: 



" I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of the trumpet, 

 when I read about the capturing of rare beetles — is not this 

 a magnanimous simile for a decayed entomologist ? — It really 

 almost makes me long to begin collecting again. Adios. 



" ' Floreat Entomologia ! ' — to which toast at Cambridge I 

 have drunk many a glass of wine. So again, ' Floreat Ento- 

 mología.' N.B. — I have not now been drinking any glasses full 

 of wine." ^ 



The Chairman then gave the toast in Ch.\rles Darw^in's 

 words, " Floreat Entomologia." 



Dr. Everts (The Hague) next asked the company to drink 

 in a hearty manner the toast of the health of the President of 

 the Congress and the General Secretary. He thanked the two 

 gentlemen he had named for all that they had done in arranging 

 the Congress, which had proved extremely successful. He was 

 sure they would all leave the venerable City of Oxford with 

 sentiments of gratitude, and they never would forget the hospi- 

 tality which had been extended to them, and wiiicli had made the 

 week a memorable one (applause). 



The company sang " For he's a jolly good fellow," and cheers 

 were given for the President and Mrs. Poulton. 



The President said they had really thanked him a great deal 

 too much durng the afternoon meeting, and he could only say 



^ Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887, vol. ii., p. 141. Letter 

 written before 1857. 



