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systematists and physiologists — they will not have heen made 

 in vain. I cannot but feel the great imperfection of my plea, 

 but if I have been unable to ofifer a more substantial 

 contribution you must attribute my shortcomings to want 

 of time for Avorking at any special branch of entomology. 

 The little part that I have endeavoured to play has always 

 been to help, I am afraid by somewhat disjointed efforts, in 

 overthrowing that threatening notice of "no thoroughfare" 

 which was at one time interposed in the path of speculation 

 in our department of zoological science. The labours of those 

 who have entered our domain by this path have encouraged 

 and confirmed me in the belief that such efforts have not been 

 altogether devoid of value. 



OBITUARY. 



Aethur Sidney Olliff, F.E.S. — Although Mr. Olliff died 

 in December, 1895, the news of his death did not reach 

 England until after my last address. I therefore think it 

 necessary to refer to him at the present time. He died at 

 Sydney, N. S. W., on December 29th, 1895. He was the 

 only son of Mr. S. J. Olliff, of Hornsey, London, and was 

 born in 1865, being just over thirty years of age when he 

 died. He was first employed in the office of the late Mr. 

 E. W. Jauson, and afterwards obtained a post at the British 

 Museum ; subsequently he was curator and private secre- 

 tary to Lord Walsingham. In December, 1884, he left 

 England, having obtained a position in the Australian 

 Museum at Sydney. In 1890 he was appointed Govern- 

 ment Entomologist in connection with the Agricultural 

 Department of New South Wales. He recently published 

 an important official pamphlet of fifteen pages with four 

 l^lates, on the so-called " vegetable caterpillars," under the 

 title " Australian Entomophytes." He joined the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London in 188G. 



Edwakd Armitage, R.A., F.E.S., died at Tunbridge Wells, 

 on Sunday the 24th of May last, from apoplexy and ex- 



