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Society with the sum of £45, on the 45th anniversary of his 
election as a Member. 
He was elected President in 1888-84, and was mainly 
instrumental in obtaining the Royal Charter of Incorporation 
which has so materially raised its status, defraying the heavy 
expenses out of his own pocket. To the general regret, the 
Charter was not granted until the year after his term of 
office had expired. 
Able as his published papers on Entomology are, they are 
few in number, the most important being on ‘‘ The Coffee- 
Borer of Southern India” (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868), 
and ‘On the Genus Acentropus”’ (id., 1872 and 1878). 
In October, 1890, he had a paralytic seizure, from the 
effects of which he never fully recovered; a similar attack 
brought about his death in October 15, 1897, and deprived 
this Society of its greatest benefactor, to whom its present 
prosperity is largely owing. 
James B. Hopnexrinson, F.E.S., was born at Preston in 
1823, and was an engineer, and later a manufacturer by 
occupation. An excellent and observant field-naturalist, he 
possessed an intimate knowledge of the Lepidoptera of the 
North of England, and added several new species to the 
British list. His collection of British lepidoptera was one of 
the finest in the country. 
He published numerous collecting notes, but little or 
nothing of permanent scientific value. He joined this Society 
in 1890. 
Ernest Sasez, F.Z.8., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., was in business 
in Cannon Street. He formed a large collection of Kuropean 
and exotic, chiefly African, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, but 
had not collected personally for many years. At one time, 
however, he travelled in Africa, and probably formed the 
nucleus of his collection there. He published nothing on 
Entomology. He had been a Fellow of the Society from 
1885. 
Capt. Epwarp Yersury Watson, F.Z.8., F.E.S., joined the 
North Lancashire Regiment as Lieutenant in 1884. Whilst 
in India, he collected and studied the Oriental Rhopalocera, 
on which he published several papers, his most important 
