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than I do in connection with the Society, as his loss will 

 be felt there even more than in this Society. 



Dr. Charles Brongniart was elected a Member in 1879, and 

 although he was a comparatively young man, being only 40 

 years old, he had attained a very wide-spread reputation by 

 his studies of fossil insects. He had also been appointed 

 Secretary to the Committee dealing with " Insectes et Crypto- 

 games utiles ou nuisibles k I'Agi'iculture " at the forthcoming 

 Paris Exhibition of 1900. 



R. W. Fereday lived in New Zealand for abovit the last 

 30 years. He joined our Society in 1881, and did a good 

 deal of valuable Lepidopterological work on New Zealand 

 species. 



Rev. W. Farren White had been a Member since 1865, but 

 his Entomological studies are not much known, though he 

 published a work on "Ants and their ways." 



Hildebrand Ramsden joined in 1882 and was a life-Mem- 

 ber ; but I do not know anything about his Entomological 

 studies. 



The Society has consequently been exceedingly fortunate 

 in having lost scarcely any of its scientific power, while the 

 actual obituary loss from more than 400 Fellows is very 

 slight. 



Outside our own Society the most notable deaths are those 

 of F. M. Van der Wulp, James Hardy, Prof. J. J. Alexandre 

 Laboulb^ne, Charles Stewart Gregson, Prof. Achille Costa, 

 Dr. William Ny lander. Dr. Alexander Wallace, John Brooks 

 Bridgman, and Dr. R. H. Meade. I must refer to many of 

 these as they are names which have left so strong an impress 

 on the Entomological world. 



First and foremost stands Frederik Maurits Yan der Wulp, 

 because of the high rank which he held for about 40 years 

 in Dipterology. For a long time past he has been one of 

 the leading authorities on Diptera in the northern half of 

 Europe, and had he confined himself more to his original 

 studies of the Netherland Diptera there can be no doubt but 

 that he would have been the leading authority in North 

 Europe after the death of Loew in 1879 ; as it was, he was 

 attracted away from his earlier studies towards Exotic forms, 



