Ci xi? } 
whereas formerly, most of the members who wished for it had 
to pay an additional sum for its possession. As the annual 
‘volume is now well worth the small subscription we exact from 
our Fellows, there is good reason for expecting that as the 
existence and advantages of the Society become more widely 
known, the number of our Fellows may continue to increase. 
We have lost by death during the year five Fellows. One 
of them, George Robert Waterhouse, who died at an advanced 
age, was mongst the most distinguished of the entomologists 
of this country; he was one of the founders of our Society, and 
was formerly one of its Presidents; his name is of prominent 
importance in Zoology, and he rendered great services to our 
own division of that branch of science; a brief memoir 
of his life has been drawn up by one of his sons, and will be 
published in our annual volume. Philip Henry Gosse had 
been one of our Fellows since 1879; he also died at a very 
advanced age; he resided in Devonshire and I believe did not 
appear at our meetings, but he was well known to naturalists 
in connection with the natural history of Jamaica; he pub- 
lished a very pleasing book, that contains much information 
on entomological subjects, descriptive of his residence there ; 
and his paper on the clasping organs of some Lepidoptera, 
published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, at- 
tracted much attention amongst lepidopterists. Mr. H.J.S. 
Pryer had belonged to the Society since 1867; he died in the 
prime of life, in Japan, where he had been resident for 
fifteen or sixteen years. During this period he devoted much 
attention to Entomology, more particularly to Lepidoptera, 
and published lists of the species found there. He was 
actively engaged in working at the Japanese Lepidoptera at 
the time of his unexpected and regretted decease. The Rev. 
Henry Thomas Browne, of High Wycombe, had belonged to 
the Society for twenty-six years; and Robert Maulkin Ling- 
wood, of Cheltenham, was a member for no less than fifty- 
three years. I regret that I had not the pleasure of the 
acquaintance of either of these gentlemen, and can give you 
no information about them. I am not aware that either of 
them published anything on entomological subjects. 
John Scott, who died in 1888, had an extensive knowledge 
