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may one recommend Entomology a.« an aid to old age. I may 

 further add that of these remaining 24 Fellows I can only 

 I'omcmber having seen 8 at the IVIeetings of the Society ever 

 since I was a Member, but while personally I may ivgret 

 that I am becoming one of the veterans, I can correspondingly 

 congratulate the Socriety upon the enormous amount of youth 

 and vigour which must exist among the other Fellows, and the 

 consequently confident future of the Society. 



As a rule our Meetings have been well attended, but on 

 some occasions when a second Meeting has been held in one 

 month there has been a falling off in both attendance and 

 interest, and it may well be considered both by the Covincil 

 and the Society whether some re-arrangement might be made 

 concerning the dates of the Meetings. I am bound to acknow- 

 ledge that the real work of the Society has been done by our 

 Secretaries and the Treasurer. Knowing what the duties of 

 Secretaries are in such a Society as this, I can testify that 

 theii- hard work has been made to appear easy work because 

 of the smoothness and accuracy with which all has been 

 executed, and that the woi'k of the Council has been therefore 

 of an uneventful nature ; consequently all the more do I 

 regret that we are losing the services of Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 who has been ordered abroad, though we are all proud that 

 one of our body should be called to the service of our Queen 

 and Country. I sincerely hope that at the end of his term 

 of service we may welcome him again amongst us, and that 

 he may hold high office in our Society in years to come. I 

 can here endorse the remarks made by Mr. Trimen in his 

 Presidential Address of last year, for I think the Society is 

 now in a position to appoint a paid Assistant-Secretary to 

 conduct under the direction of the Secretaries the ordinary 

 routine business ; at present the duties of a Secretary are so 

 exacting that Fellows hesitate at accepting the office, but if 

 the routine business could be taken off their hands T believe 

 we could always obtain the services of our most capable men. 

 As to our Treasurer, it is quite unnecessary for me to say 

 much ; he is well known to you all, or else soon makes himself 

 well known, and he has proved himself to be a most worthy 

 guardian of our finances, though I think I never knew him 



