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the great celebration at Cambridge of the double anniversary 

 of Charles Darwin, — the hundredth of his birth, and the fiftieth 

 of the publication of the " Origin of Species." I cannot attempt 

 on the present occasion to do even partial justice to the 

 immense interest of the ceremonies that marked that com- 

 memoration ; — probably the most important event of the kind 

 that the present generation will witness. I should wish, 

 however, to express my gratification in being permitted to 

 bear a part in it as your accredited representative, and I take 

 this opportunity of putting on record the terms of the Address 

 presented to the University on your behalf. It runs as 

 follows : — 



" To the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Members 

 of the University of Cambridge. 



" The Entomological Society of London feels greatly 

 honoured at the invitation to associate itself with the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge in celebrating the Centenary of her illustrious 

 alumnus, Charles Robert Darwin. In common with all 

 other students of nature, Entomologists recognise in the life 

 and work of Darwin an influence which has ti'ansformed for 

 them the whole aspect of their labours. Every department of 

 their field of study has been quickened into fresh life by the 

 genius of the great naturalist whose work received its first 

 direction within the precincts of the University of Cambridge. 

 Insect Systematics, Morphology, Physiology, and Embryology, 

 as pursued at the present day, all owe their significance and 

 their aims to the illuminating doctrine of Natui-al Selection. 

 The vast subject of Insect Bionomics, which affords one of the 

 most fertile fields at present open for the interpretation of 

 natural phenomena, dates not only its importance but its very 

 existence from the publication of the views which found expres- 

 sion in the 'Origin of Species.' The Entomological Society of 

 London points with pi-ide to the fact that, while Entomologists 

 in all parts of the world have found in the career and person- 

 ality of Charles Darwin at once a stimulus and an example of 

 unrivalled power, many of the researches which, during the 

 past thirty years, have done most to illustrate, confirm and 

 extend the Darwinian views of species-transformation have 



