PSYCHE. 



THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



AXNUAL ADDRESS OF THE RETIRIXG PRESIDEXT OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL CLUB, II JANUARY 1SS4. 



Fcllo-v JMeml'crs of the Cambridge 



E)!to)]iological Club : — 



I tliank \ou for the honor you were 

 pleased to confer upon nie a year ago, 

 in electing me to be your president, an 

 office which to my regret I could fill 

 only in name. I look upon this action 

 of yours as a recognition of my interest 

 in your work and of my earnest endeay- 

 ors to promote it. My absence from 3'our 

 meetings has not weakened my deyotion 

 to the cause which under your auspices 

 I huye sought, din'ing the last ten years, 

 tij adyance. 



Ten years of the life of the club haye 

 expired, in which the membership of 

 the club has enlarged and grown in in- 

 fluence. A bright future is before us 

 if we only strive in unison to carry out 

 the purposes for vyhich our club was 

 formed, in the most liberal spirit, giying. 

 and trusting for the returns. 



I need not dwell upon retrospect nor 

 prophecy. You know the past, and 

 vou have the future in your own con- 

 trol. 



I welcome this opportunity, dictated 

 by custom and by vr)ur laws, to express 



my thoughts upon that part of our work 

 as a club witli which I have been most 

 concerned. It will not seem to you un- 

 natural for me to speak of the Bibliogra- 

 phy of entomology, its purposes and 

 its methods. I will not go into its 

 history, for I prefer rather to consider 

 its future. 



We are fortunate in having in our 

 midst and reckoning as one of our num- 

 Ijer the prince by excellence of the bib- 

 liographers of entomology. We count 

 also amongst our members others \vho 

 have rendered efficient service in this 

 useful and laborious art. One can hard- 

 h' think of the Cambridge entomolog- 

 ical club without thinking of Psyche 

 or of Psyche w^ithout thinking of its 

 Bibliographical record. We are there- 

 fore prepared in an especial manner to 

 appreciate tlie importance of bibliogra- 

 phical work as applied to the promotion 

 of science. 



The need of such work is evidently 

 felt in these da}^s moi'e than ever before. 

 Since we entered upon our work we 

 have seen bibliographical departments 

 established as an important feature in 



