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In addition to the mention of Fellows who have died during 

 the year, the Report of the Council relates to one other matter 

 which can only be a source of the greatest regret. Needless 

 to say, I refer to the resignation from office of our worthy 

 Treasurer. He has for so long a time, and with such great care 

 and success, looked after the financial affairs of the Society, 

 that it owes him a debt it can never expect to repay. 

 But if gratitude to him for his services can help to wipe 

 out the debt, he may rest assured tliat he has it in full 

 measure. 



The Fellows of the Society who have died in 1917, fortunately 

 not a very large number, include Dr. Emile Frey-Gessner, an 

 Honorary Fellow ; Charles Owen Waterhouse, a former 

 President; Arthur Ernest Gibbs, who was a member of the 

 Council, and six other Fellows. 



Dr. Frey-Gessner had a deservedly high reputation as an 

 Entomologist both here and abroad, and although I had not 

 the good fortune to know him personally, I understand that 

 he was very popiilar with his fellow-workers on the Con- 

 tinent. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Entomology at the meeting held in 

 Oxford in 1912, and in the same year was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow of this Society. Born in Canton Aargaii, he began 

 collecting Swiss insects of all kinds at an early age, chiefly 

 for Drs. Imhoff and Schmidt of Basel. Though his own 

 tastes were at first directed towards the Orthoptera, they were 

 gradually transferred to the Hymenoptera. His monograph 

 of the Swiss bees (Hymenoptera Helvetica, Apidae), which 

 was completed only a short time before his death, is considered 

 by competent judges to be a very thorough one. He had a 

 general knowledge of exotic insects, but devoted himself 

 chiefly to the insects of the Swiss fauna ; and his collections, 

 which are entirely Swiss, are now mostly in the Bern Aluseum, 

 while some are at Geneva. 



Charles Owen Waterhouse was the eldest son of George R. 

 Waterhouse, who was one of the original members of this 

 Society, and also at one time President; so that his name has 

 always been closely connected with the Entomological Society 

 of London and carries us back to the days of its foundation. 



