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At the termination of my second year of ofl&ce as President, I 

 again thank you for the uniform courtesy with which I have been 

 received at our monthly meetings. I have the satisfaction of 

 vacating the Chair with the knowledge that our Society is in a 

 healthy condition. That it shall so continue depends much upon 

 receipts on the one hand and cautious expenditure on the other. 

 You have chosen as my successor one of ray earliest entomological 

 companions, a gentleman whose knowledge of Coleoptera, taken 

 as a whole, is probably not to be equalled here or elsewhere. All 

 I ask of you is to — speed the parting, welcome the coming, man. 



