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Mr. Grut. You all know the efficient and courteous manner 

 in which those duties are performed, hut there is a saying 

 that you should not flog a willing horse too hard, and we all 

 feel that we ought not to work a librarian, who is both 

 honorary and honoured, too inconsiderately. But our library 

 is constantly increasing, and so, too, are the duties of the 

 librarian, and the position is now such that we could not ask 

 him to undertake any additional work ; indeed that we 

 would like, if possible, to relieve him of some of that he so 

 faithfully does for us. Unfortunately our Bye-Laws give 

 no power to appoint an honorary Assistant Librarian, as is 

 done by the Entomological Society of France, and, if we wish 

 to do so, it will be necessary to have a Special Meeting called 

 with a view to altering the Bye-Laws. 



That we should have lost only one Fellow by death during 

 the year is a remarkable fact that we can expect only rarely 

 to recur. Mr. E. F. Logan, whose loss we mourn, was for 

 nearly forty years a member of our Society ; he was an artist, 

 residing near Edinburgh, and I understood, during the time 

 I was myself at Edinburgh, that he was in delicate health, so 

 that I did not make his acquaintance ; and it was probably 

 owing to this weakness that he did not take so conspicuous 

 a place in Entomology as his early achievements in it 

 promised for him ; he, however, retained his interest in it 

 till the last years of his life. 



Death has also taken from us but few entomologists outside 

 the ranks of our Society. I know of no others than the few 

 of whom you will find obituary notices in the pages of the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' ; the most prominent 

 being the Bev. John Hellins, so well known in connection 

 with life-histories of British Lepidoptera ; John Sang, who 

 possessed considerable powers as a draughtsman ; and Mr. 

 Unwin, of Lewes. Outside our own country the names ef 

 only two that have disappeared call for mention : Pierre 

 Milliere, a lepidopterist of the South of France, who, like our 

 own Hellins, was well known on account of his published 

 observations of metamorphoses ; and Max Gemminger, of 

 Munich, to whom Entomology owes a hearty acknowledgment, 

 for it is to him, in conjunction with von Harold, whose loss 



