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ADDRESS, 
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GENTLEMEN, 
The time has now arrived when, in accordance with 
the rules of this Society, I have to resign the Presidency into 
other hands, and I do so with less regret, because, as I said 
in my address last year, I find that the numerous duties 
and pleasures of life, and the greatly increased amount of 
business which my connection with agriculture at present 
entails, leave me too little time to attend to the work of 
the Society ; and because I know that I am resigning it into 
the hands of a gentleman who will, as a Fellow of the Royal 
Society, resident in London, be able to do much more to 
advance the interests of the Society than I can do. 
Iam happy to think that, as I leave the chair, the Society 
is more numerous, more active, and richer than when I 
took it, and hope that it will continue to make as satisfactory 
progress in numbers and ability as it has done for some years 
past.* 
No event of great importance has, so far as I know, taken 
place in the entomological world during the past year. The 
number of memoirs and papers registered by the indefatig- 
able labours of our colleague, Dr. Sharp, in the Zoological 
Record, is no less than 1069 against 1026 in the previous 
year, and I fear that the difficulty of keeping pace with, and 
studying this enormous mass of material, to which I made 
* The increase in the number of Fellows is from 254 in 1884 to 383 in 1894. 
