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a regular attendant at our meetings. For many years past he 
had confined his studies to the Phytophagous Coleoptera, and 
he contributed many papers to our Transactions and to the 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society. His chief works were the 
Phytophaga in the “ Biologia Centrali Americana,” and quite 
lately the volume on Phytophaga for the ‘ Fauna of India.” 
This work he had just completed, and it was all in print, but 
unfortunately he did not live to see it published. He formed 
a large collection of these insects, which passed into the hands 
of Herr van de Poll. Since parting with this he had been 
forming a second collection, but I do not know anything of 
its extent. We shall all miss his presence amongst us. 
ArtHur Joun Curry, M.A., died on January 6th of this 
year, at the age of 48. He was a barrister-at-law and had 
not much leisure, but much of what he had he devoted to 
Entomology. He joined this Society in 1891, and since 1906 
had been a most useful member of our Council. He was a 
keen collector of British Coleoptera, but did not confine him- 
self to this Order. Lately he had taken up the Proctotrupide. 
That he was cut off from pursuing the study of these insects is 
greatly to be regretted, as this family has been much neglected. 
His loss will be deeply felt by all who knew him. 
Before proceeding to the subject of my address I must not 
omit to mention an important event that happened during the 
year. I allude to the bicentenary of the birth of Linneus, 
which was celebrated at Upsala and Stockholm, to which this 
Society was invited to send a representative. The Rev. F. D. 
Morice kindly undertook to present an address on our behalf, 
and he has given us a report on what occurred. I do not 
propose to inquire what views Linnzus held as regards the 
relationship existing between animals. When we say that 
one animal is related to another, we mean that these have a 
common origin, and that implies evolution, But whatever 
views Linnzeus held, he certainly saw in a way that none of 
his predecessors had, that plants and animals fell naturally 
into groups, and he arranged them systematically in Classes, 
Orders and Genera in a manner that had never been done 
before. 
Of ‘nsects he knew at the time the twelfth edition of his 
