THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN, 
As already remarked in the Report of the Council, by the 
death of Joun Gout, F.R.S., the celebrated Ornithologist (or, as 
he preferred to call himself, the ‘‘ Birdman’’), we have lost one 
of our few still remaining Original Members. These are now 
reduced to seven, one of whom, I am happy to see, is still a 
regular attendant at our meetings, and another is constantly 
occupied yet with entomological work, though his appearances 
here are now somewhat ‘like angels’ visits, few and far 
between.” 
I am not aware that the late John Gould ever published 
anything on entomological subjects; his name does not occur in 
Hagen’s ‘ Bibliotheca Entomologica,’ but his sustained interest 
in this Society is shown by his continuance as a member for 
nearly forty-eight years, without having compounded. Such 
members are clearly far more profitable to the Society than those 
who compound soon after joining our ranks. Perhaps the 
example which our Treasurer would best like to see generally 
followed would be that of the late Dr. Garnier, Dean of Win- 
chester, who, after paying an annual subscription to the Linnean 
Society for more than sixty years, eventually compounded when 
between eighty and ninety years of age. 
The Report of the Council alludes also to the gap in the 
ranks of our Honorary Members caused by the death of AcHILLE 
Gurnér, of Chateaudun. His decease was mentioned in the 
report of our Council a year ago; but as his loss was then too 
recent for any details to be given, it appears to me that some 
