140 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
propriety of reverting to the original constitution, by prohibiting the 
future election of either Corresponding Members or Annual Subscribers, 
and leaving those classes to gradual extinction, or, as it is hoped, to 
absorption among the Ordinary Members. 
“At the present moment we have 83 Subscribers and 205 Ordinary 
Members, making a total of 238 contributing Members. ‘Three years ago 
I ventured to express from this chair a hope that we might be able to 
publish a Jubilee List of not less than 300 Members. It is not yet too late. 
And T appeal to each and all of you, Gentlemen, to be active in striving 
to attain this object. 
«<The Entomological Society of London is instituted for the im- 
provement and diffusion of Entomological Science.’ From first to last, 
this has been our only object. To bring fellow-workers into friendly 
communication, and facilitate the interchange of ideas, to extract the 
hidden knowledge of secluded students, to provide a Library for con- 
sultation, to encourage observation and experiment, and to publish the 
results for the benefit of all whom they may concern—such is our aim, 
the very reason of our being. And I venture to assert that the Society 
has succeeded in its object.. If any be inclined to doubt, I refer him to 
the thirty volumes of our ‘ Transactions,’ to the record of ‘ Proceedings’ 
at our more than 600 meetings, as proof of the activity and the unfailing 
ardour with which the Society has now for half a century devoted itself 
to the diffusion of Entomological Science. 
«Let me recall the names of some who in their day were enrolled in 
our ranks—such men, for instance, as Adams, Allis, Atkinson, Bain- 
bridge, Bakewell, Bedell, Bell, Bevan, Bladon, Bowerbank, Bree, Brown, 
Champion, Children, Clark, Crotch, Curtis, Darwin, Dawson, Desvignes, 
the Doubledays, Evans, Gould, the Grays, Guyon, Haliday, Hewitson, 
Hope, Horsfield, Howitt, Ingall, Ingpen, Jesse, Kirby, Lee, Macleay, 
Melly, Murray, Newman, Newport, Pickering, Raddon, Roget, Saunders, 
Shuckard, Smith, Solly, Spence, Spry, Stephens, Swanzy, Swainson, Sykes, 
Thwaites, Turner, Vigors, Wailes, Walker, Walton, White, Wollaston, 
and Yarrell. 
“T might have added others to this list of departed worthies, and I am 
prohibited, by the fact that they are still amongst us, from mentioning 
many distinguished men; but the names I have recited, including students 
and workers in Entomology who have left their mark behind them, and 
others who happily were not limited to our own or even to kindred branches 
of Science, are sufficient to cast no light burden upon us and our successors 
to maintain the traditions of this Society. Is it nothing that we should 
stand in the place of such predecessors? Is it nothing that this Society 
should have formed a bond of union and friendship between them? Surely 
an Association like this fulfils a useful purpose if it does nothing more 
