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THE PRESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



Gentlkmen, 



Since the close of the past year, and since I undertook 

 the duty of preparing the following Address, our Honorary 

 Life-President, the venerable John Obadiah Westwood, has 

 been removed from us by death. I do not now propose to 

 make any attempt to give a summary of the work of this 

 eminent Entomologist, which would adequately occupy, of 

 itself, the whole of the time at my disposal, and which 

 must be postponed to our next Anniversary. Suffice it to say 

 that the late Prof. Westwood was one of our original Members, 

 and for about sixty years took an active interest in our wel- 

 fare ; and, after serving in various offices in connection with 

 our administration, was unanimously elected Honoryry Life- 

 President at a Special Meeting of the Society, held on the 

 2nd of May, 1883. He died at Oxford on Jan. 2nd, 1893, in 

 his 87th year, having been born on December 22nd, 1805. 



Besides the loss of our Honorary Life-President, our Society 

 has during the past year suffered severely by the deaths of 

 two of our Honorary Fellows and of eight Ordinary Fellows, 

 including amongst them several of great distinction. 



Pkofessor Hermann Carl Conrad Burmeister, M.D., who 

 was elected an Honorary Member in 1875, was born at Stras- 

 lund on the 15th of January, 1807, and died at Buenos Ayres on 

 the 2nd of May last. In early life he lived at Halle, where he 

 studied for the medical profession, and was a pupil of Nitzsch, 

 whom he subsequeutly succeeded in the chair of Zoology in 

 the University of Halle in 1812, having well quahfied himself 

 for the post by his able writings on Natural History subjects, 

 Entomology forming no inconsiderable portion. The first 



