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year. I find that we have lost one Honorary Fellow, and 

 three others. 



Dr. Victor Signoret, for more than forty years a most 

 indefatigable worker in Scientific Entomology, whose name 

 is specially well known in connection with the study of 

 Hemiptera, was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1882, and 

 died last April at the age of 72. 



Mr. Frederick Bond, who died in August last, joined our 

 Society so long ago as 1841, and was personally known to 

 many of us, and highly esteemed as one of the most 

 observant of British naturalists. I can testify from my own 

 grateful experience that he was ever ready to assist his friends 

 with such information as his excellent memory and well- 

 arranged collections enabled him to impart. 



Monsieur Jacques C. Puis, who died at Ghent in January, 

 joined the Society in 1870, and was an authority upon 

 Hemiptera. His vast entomological library has lately been 

 dispersed at very remarkable prices. 



We have also lost Colonel C. J. Cox, who had been a 

 member of the Society since 1853. 



The following distinguished entomologists, who were not 

 Fellows of this Society, have also died during the past year, 

 viz. : — Mons. J. B. Gehin, the Rev. H. J. Gore, Pastor 

 August Emil Holmgren, Herr Theodor Kirsche, Dr. Franz 

 Low, Prof. Wm. Ramsay McNab, M.D., Dr. Karl Edward 

 Venus, founder of the Dresden • Iris,' and the Rev. J. G. 

 Wood. 



I have now only to conclude by thanking the Fellows of 

 the Society for the patience with which they have accorded 

 me their kind attention, and for the friendly courtesy they 

 have shown me during the year in which I have had the 

 honour of being their President. 



