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ami in those, he has made a name for himself which will 

 never be forgotten. He lived all his life at the Hague, and 

 died there when nearly 81 years old. 



James Hardy has been forgotten for more than a genera- 

 tion ; but in the fifties and sixties he did a lot of useful work 

 in the North of England, and many almost overlooked papers 

 by him in the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club will have to be carefully examined by the present 

 generation. 



Professor J. J. Alexandre Laboulbene is another name 

 which appeals to past generations, and it seems impossible to 

 those of the present day who have occasion to study his 

 writings to realise that he has been amongst us until last 

 year. He began to write in 1848, and was thi-ee times 

 President of the French Entomological Society. 



C. S. Gregson was one of the old school of hard-working 

 British Lepidopterists, but was very little known to the 

 present generation. 



Professor Achille Costa was one of the best known of that 

 family of Italian Entomologists, and was a most prolific writer, 

 though his writings were very little known in England. 



Dr. William Nylander, who was born in Finland in 1822, 

 had made a name for liimself among the workers at 

 Hymenoptera. 



Dr. Alexander Wallace was for about 20 years a Member 

 of this Society, and was probably best known from his at- 

 tempts to introduce sericiculture into England from the 

 large Ailanthus and other Bomhyces. 



John Brooks Bridgman was also at one time a Fellow of 

 our Society, and did a vast amount of exceedingly viseful 

 work in the British lelineumonidiz. 



Dr. R. H. Meade of Bradford died, as I have been 

 at the last moment informed, on December 23rd last. 

 He was 86 years old, and was working at Entomology 

 up to the time of his death. It is with sincere regret 

 that I received this information, as the few students 

 in British Dipterology can ill afford to lose so good 

 a worker as he was. Even during the last few years 

 he had done a great deal to bring t«o of the least-known 



