142. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Hope and Professor Westwood each for six years. Nine of the twenty 
are still amongst us, and I am pleased to see that several of them are 
present this evening. 
“Gentlemen, I can only regret that, by the irony of fate, it has fallen 
to my lot to fill the Presidential Chair on this occasion, when, of all 
others, it ought to have been occupied by one of the Fathers of British 
Entomology. But you have willed it otherwise, and I will bury my regret ; 
nay, it is already swallowed up in the delight I feel at the commission 
with which I have been entrusted by the unanimous voice of the Council, 
and I am sure that the proposition I have now to make will meet with 
your approval, and be carried by acclamation. 
“T have to suggest that Professor Westwood be made titular Life- 
President of the Society. 
“There is no man to whom we as a body owe so much. An Oriyinal 
Member, he has never failed us; during the crucial period of our child- 
hood he was the motive power, the life and soul of the Society; for 
fourteen consecutive years he was Secretary, and for part of that time he 
was Curator also. The Council has seldom been complete without him; 
he has been Vice-President times without number, and during six years 
(1851-52, 72-73, 76-77) he was our President. Whilst he resided in or 
near London, he rarely missed one of our meetings; even Oxford cannot 
keep him away from us; and there is not a single year from first to last 
that he has not been a contributor to our ‘ Transactions.’ From 1827 to 
the present time his pen and his pencil have never been idle; his papers 
are scattered broadcast over the scientific publications of this and other 
countries; and to single out a few of his more important works it is 
enough to mention the ‘Introduction to the Modern Classification of 
Insects’ (1839-40), the ‘Arcana Entomologica’ (1841-45), the ‘ Cabinet 
of Oriental Kntomology’ (1848), the ‘Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera’ 
(1852), and the ‘Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis’ (1874). What 
do we not owe to Westwood’s ‘Introduction’? has it not been to many 
of the present generation of entomologists the very fountain and sole 
source of their scientific views? His labours have ranged over the 
whole domain of our Science. Specialists may excel in their own par- 
ticular groups, but as a general entomologist have we a man to compare 
with him ? 
* Scientific bodies, both at home and abroad, have delighted to do him 
honour: the Entomological Societies of France and Holland, of Berlin, 
Stettin, and St. Petersburg have claimed him for their Honorary List: 
other Scientific Associations in France, Germany and Austria, in Russia 
aud Scandinavia, in the United States of North America and the Dominion 
of Canada, have vied with each other in conferring upon him such 
distinctions as lay in their power; Brazil has made him a Knight of the 
