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When the long-hoped-for reply arrived I was on the Continent, which 

 will account for my not being present to personally congratulate you, as 

 your President, on this auspicious event. I shall have occasion to refer to 

 it a few months hence, and much as I regret my absence at the last meeting, 

 I feel that I was most efficiently repi'esented by our excellent Vice-President, 

 Mr. Jenner Weir, who occupied the chair; and I have the additional 

 satisfaction of knowing that the gratuitous exertions of Messrs. Dunning 

 and Crisp, to whom we are so much indebted in connection with this matter, 

 met with due acknowledgment. 



" While I am speaking I ask you to allow me to allude to another 

 subject. The day after my arrival on the Continent I had the pleasure of 

 assisting at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the 

 Entomological Society of the Netherlands, held at Amsterdam on the 18th 

 July, a Society that has, as you know, done so much good work in furthering 

 entomological science generally, and especially in the investigation of the 

 insect-fauna of Holland and of its East Indian possessions. I met there 

 our Honorary Member, my much respected friend Baron de Selys- 

 Longchamps, who was specially delegated by the Belgian Entomological 

 Society to represent it at the meeting. He has published an excellent 

 account of what took place in the ' Compte Rendu ' of his Society of the 

 meeting on August 1st. It was natural that a country so intimately con- 

 nected with Holland as is Belgium should have been officially represented. 

 I was there simply in virtue of my much-prized position as an Honorary 

 Member of the Society of the Netherlands, and the warmness of my 

 reception, and the hospitality I experienced at the hands of our Dutch 

 brethren in Entomology, could not have been greater had I been 

 officially delegated by this Society ; I ask you, as your President, and as 

 unofficially representing British entomologists on the occasion, to allow 

 this public expression of my thanks to appear in our ' Proceedings.' One 

 word more. I found that almost without exception the members pre- 

 sent were able to converse in English, and I found everywhere the 

 warmest desire to still further enter into cordial relations with British 

 entomologists." 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited living specimens of Eubrychius velatus, 

 Beck., lately collected at Eastbourne swimming freely in water, using its 

 legs after the manner of a Dytiscus. When resting on the Myriophyllum 

 the middle pair of legs were kept in motion. 



Messrs. Fowler and Champion said they had frequently taken other 

 Phytobii with the water-net. 



Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited the larva of Gyrinus mariiius, Gyll., 

 wliicli was new to him, but was beautifully figured by Schiiidte ; also 



