130 The Presidents of the L.N.U. 
chiefly in connection with his scientific work, and largely with 
that work as connected with the County of Lincoln. 
In the year 1893, a number of Lincolnshire Naturalists met 
together with the object of founding a society for the proper 
investigation of the Natural History of the County. This Society , 
which took the name of * The Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union” 
has done, and is doing, admirable work on behalf of the County 
Natural History. It is needless to say that Canon Towler took 
a hearty interest in this movement, and in 1897, was unanimously 
elected President, which office he held for two years. If any 
reader of “The Naturalist” will compare the record of Lincoln- 
shire Natural History as summarized in the index of that 
Magazine for the year 1893, with the summary for last year, they 
will appreciate the great advance in Natural History studies which 
has been the result of the activity of the Union, under the clear- 
sighted guidance of its first Presidents, and its energetic 
Secretaries. 
In 1878, Canon Fowler was elected a Tellow of the Linnean 
Society ; and was further honoured in 1904, by being placed on” 
its Council. 
It is however as an Entomologist that he is best known, and 
particularly as an original worker, at the Group of Coleoptera, or 
Beetles, although he has done excellent work at other groups. 
Canon Fowler was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society 
of London in the year 1880; was Secretary in 1894 and 1895, and 
was President for two years, from 1g01—1903, inclusive. I 
believe he was a most popular President, adding to high attain- 
ments a great charm of manner. 
Interested as he was in our insular fauna, le nevertheless 
found time to work out some large collections from foreign 
countries. ‘hus he contributed a splendid monograph on the 
Hemiptera Homoptera, to the “ Biologia Centrali-Americana”’ a — 
colossal work projected as long ago as 1279, by Messrs. Godman 
and Salvin. In 1887, was published “ The Coleoptera of the British 
Islands,” an exhaustive work in 5 vols., as well as a large paper 
edition, with 2,300 coloured figures. ‘he demands upon his time 
made by a work of this description, must have been exceedingly 
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