THE PEESIDENT'S ADDKESS 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



The Eeports of the Council to which we have been listen- 

 ing confirm our expectation that the new chapter in the history 

 of the Society, inaugurated by the acquisition of premises of its 

 own, would be the beginning of a period of increasing activity 

 and prosperity. It is very satisfactory to hear from the 

 Treasurer and Secretary of the sound state of our finances and 

 of the large number of new Fellows who have joined the Society 

 in the course of the year, and it is most gratifying that, in 

 spite of the great cost of printing, we have been able to keep 

 up the standard of our publications without undue strain on 

 our resources. I need not comment further on the Eeports 

 presented to you, except that I should like to give renewed 

 expression of our gratitude to all who have assisted the 

 Society by donations, and in particular to the Misses Chapman 

 for their generous gifts. 



There is every year one point in the Council's Eeport which 

 fills us with regret, the list of Fellows who have died in the 

 course of the year. In 1922 death has again taken its heavy 

 toll, and we have lost friends and fellow-workers whom we 

 shall miss very much. 



A. . W. Bacot, the Entomologist of the Lister Institute, 

 frequently exhibited at our meetings parasitic insects which 

 he studied in connection with the transmission of diseases. 

 His devotion to this humanitarian subject has cost him his 

 life. While on a mission to Egypt in order to ascertain more 

 fully the bionomics of the parasites which transmit typhus 

 and kindred diseases, he contracted typhus and fell a victim 

 to it. His contributions to his particular branch of applied 

 Entomology are not only numerous, but in consequence of 



