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THE PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



I have the pleasing duty of congratulating the Society 

 on its present aspect as disclosed by the Report just presented, 

 not omitting the satisfactory balance sheet. The papers em- 

 braced in its Transactions maintain their high character, and 

 the discussions recorded in its Proceedings are full of interest. 



The losses among the Fellows of the Society during the 

 closing months of 1905 and the year just past include several 

 names around which many interesting recollections gather. 



The Rev. Joseph Greene will long be remembered with 

 gratitude by those whom he taught nearly half a century 

 since how they might profitably spend the winter months in 

 digging insects out of their pupal retreats. His paper on 

 pupa-digging, afterwards expanded into " The Insect-hunter's 

 Companion," is a valuable aid to field naturalists, and in 

 many ways he contributed usefully to entomological literature. 

 Mr. Greene died at his residence in Bristol at the age of 

 eighty-two. 



Captain Frederick WoLLASTON Hutton, F.R.S., died on the 

 27th October, 1905, in his sixty-ninth year. After retiring 

 from the army in 1866 he emigrated to New Zealand, where 

 he was occupied for some years in the Geological Survey. For 

 some years he occupied the Chair of Zoology in Christ Church 

 University. He made many contributions on the geology 

 and natural history of New Zealand to various scientific 

 publications, including those devoted to entomology. Captain 

 Hutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892, 

 and joined our Society in 1902. 



