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vast influence over zoological studies in Germany and France 

 respectively, and in either case that influence was extended over 

 the whole scientific world. Von Siebold's * Lehrbuch der vergleich- 

 enden Anatomie der wirbellosen Thiere,' and Milne-Edwards' 



* Cours elementaire d'Histoire Naturelle,' are models of what 

 text-books should be. So far as pure entomological work is 

 concerned, the German savant published more than his French 

 confrere, and his name will be ever remembered in connection 

 with parthenogenesis, the observations on which were originally 

 made from entomological subjects, but the existence of which 

 was subsequently proved to extend far beyond the pale of 

 Entomology. If Milne-Edwards published but little on purely 

 entomological subjects, much of his work nevertheless concerned 

 the Crustacea, a class always considered to lie within the scope 

 of the Entomological Society of London. Both of these 

 illustrious zoologists will be equally remembered in connection 

 with Natural History journalism. Von Siebold was one of the 

 founders of the ' Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie ' ; 

 Milne-Edwards was long a leading editor of the not less celebrated 



* Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' 



Major Parry (born October 28th, 1810, died February 1st, 

 1885) was one of our oldest Members, having been elected so 

 long back as 1840. At one time he was a frequent attendant at 

 our meetings. His works on Lucanid(B are known to all of us, 

 and he was in fact the leading authority on that family of 

 Coleoptera. Possibly there never has been an entomologist 

 whose scientific career, extending over so long a period, was so 

 intimately connected with this Society, for, if I mistake not, the 

 whole of his published papers appeared in our Transactions. 



The premature decease, from that dire scourge smallpox, of 

 Mr. E. C. Eye (born April 10th, 1832, died February 7th, 1885) 

 is still fresh in our memories. That it should fall upon the 

 President of a Society for the time being to find that in the 

 annual roll-call there is no response in a few cases, is in all 

 instances a painful experience. There are cases in which 

 circumstances render this experience additionally painful ; such, 

 for instance, as personal friendship and intimate association over 

 a lengthened period. In such a position I find myself at 

 this moment. Five years my senior to a day, Mr. Eye and 

 I commenced our respective careers in entomological science, 



