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The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Council for 

 187 1 : — Messrs. Butler, Dunning, Fry, Grut, Higgins, M'Lachlan, Parry, 

 Pascoe, E. Saunders, Stainton, S. Stevens, A. R. Wallace and Westwood. 



The following officers for 1871 were subsequently elected : — President, 

 Mr. A. R, Wallace. Treasurer, Mr. S. Stevens. Secretaries, Messrs. 

 M'Lachlan and Grut. Librarian, Mr. E. W. Janson. 



An Address was read by the President, as follows : — 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



On looking over some of the Annual Addresses which 

 have been delivered to you from this chair, as a guide to the 

 proper performance of this portion of my duties as your 

 President, I was much relieved by the discovery that, both as 

 regards matter and arrangement, a wide latitude has been claimed 

 by my predecessors. I may therefore hope that, should I diverge 

 further than usual from the beateii track, you will kindly over- 

 look the fault, and impute it to my old habits of wandering, 

 which, being now debarred from acting on the body, may be 

 supposed to manifest themselves in equally out-of-the-way mental 

 excui'sions. 



To state what losses by death have been suffered by our 

 Society or by our Science during the past year is both a usual 

 and useful portion of the President's Address; and on this occasion 

 it becomes a duty which can on no account be neglected, since we 

 have to regret the irreparable loss of one of the greatest of 

 Entomologists — Lacordaire. It is a proper tribute to his memory 

 to devote a few lines in this j)lace to liis life and works. 



Jean Theodore Lacordaire was born in 1801 at Recey-sur- 

 Ource, a small town in the department of Cote-d'Or, situate in a 

 hilly country near the sources of the Seine, the Marne, and some 

 of the tributaries of the Rhine. His father was a surgeon, and 

 he was the eldest of four brothers, one of whom became the great 

 Dominican i)reacher who acquired a world-wide reputation by 

 his eloquence and his liberalism. Our Lacordaire was educated 

 for the bar, but never became an advocate. Circumstances, of 

 which we have no account, led him, at the age of twenty-three, to 

 make a voyage to Buenos Ayres, where he explored the Pampas 

 for four months, and probably acquired or strengthened the 



