52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of Council 

 for 1877: — Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, Professor Westvvood, 

 Rev. A. E. Eaton, Rev. T. A. Marshall ; and Messrs. H. W. 

 Bates, G. C. Champion, J. VV. Douglas, J. W. Dunning, 

 F. Grut, R. Meldola, E. Saunders, H. T. Stainton, and 

 J. Jenner Weir. 



The following Officers were subsequently elected for the 

 year 1877: — President, Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c. ; 

 Treasurer, J. Jenner Weir, Esq. ; Honorary Secretaries, 

 Messrs. F. Grut and R. Meldola ; Honorary Librarian, Rev. 

 T. A. Marshall. 



The President (Professor Westwood) having been unfortu- 

 nately prevented from attending by an accident, the reading 

 of his Address on the progress of Entomology for the past 

 j'ear was unavoidably postponed until the next Meeting, on 

 the 7lh of February. 



Death of Mr. Charles Healy. — We i^gret to have to 

 record the decease of this painstaking entomologist. As with 

 many others so with Mr. Healy : his first love was the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera ; but it was not long before the Micros received 

 attention, and their various modes of life interested him to 

 such a degree that the larger species became neglected ; 

 whilst among the Tortrices and Tineae various sawflies were 

 naturally brought to his notice, notably the leaf-raining and 

 stem-feeding species. This led to more extended observa- 

 tions ; and towards a knowledge of the life-histories of these 

 three families Mr. Healy did much good work: some species 

 were worked out in marvellous detail. These observations 

 were contributed to the pages of the ' Intelligencer' (vol. ii. 

 1857, et seq.) and the ' Entomologist' (vols. ii. to v.). For the 

 last five years he seems either to have ceased to work or 

 ceased to record, — probably only the latter, — as he was 

 always an active member of the Haggerston Entomological 

 Society, almost from its foundation. His occupation through 

 life was that of a solicitor's clerk. Mr. Healy died on the 

 27th December, 1876, when in the fiftieth year of his age, 

 and was interred at Ilford Cemetery. He leaves behind him 

 a small, but select, collection of Tortrices, Tineas, and 

 Tenthredinida;, the greater part of which were bred by 

 himself, being, as he was, far more of an observer than a 

 collector. — E. A. F. 



