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more easily make a name for themselves if they will only 

 take lip the study of the less known orders of Insects. Had 

 I been a Lepidopterist I do not think that T should ever have 

 been President of this Society, but through becoming fairly 

 well known as a student in the chaos of British Diptera my 

 name became more familiar, and I consider that it is through 

 my having studied this comparatively iin worked Order that I 

 was given the most honourable distinction that it is in the power 

 of the Society to confer. My successor. Canon W. W. Fowler, 

 has worked in Coleoptera,and even though the descriptive know- 

 ledge of that Order seems to be approaching finality — though 

 such knowledge never reaches nor ever will reach finality — yet 

 he has made for himself a name which will always be associated 

 with the study of that particular order. I am also exceedingly 

 glad to hear that he is now making his residence as near 

 London as Henley, and that therefore he will be in much 

 closer touch with us than in the past. Please do not consider 

 from this remark of mine that I consider that the President 

 of the Society should necessarily be somebody living in or 

 near London, but I do think that the Pi-esident should be 

 able to preside at most of the Meetings ; I care not Avhether 

 he be a Scotchman, Irishman, or Welshman, or even an inhabi- 

 tant of the Isle of Man, so long as he is able to attend the 

 Meetings of the Society frequently and to be well known to 

 all the Fellows who come to our Meetings. The name of Canon 

 Fowler is already familiar to most of us, and his more easy 

 accessibility will almost at once make him known to all. 



