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The letter was signed, on behalf of the Society, by the 
President and Secretaries. Mr. Trimen’s reply was as 
follows;— 
“ Southbury, Guildford, 
‘'December 1910. 
“To the Entomological Society op London. 
“ It is difficult to give adequate expression to my grateful 
sense of the honour done me by the Resolution of the Ento¬ 
mological Society of London, according its hearty congratu¬ 
lations on the recent award to me of the Darw'in Medal of 
the Royal Society, and by the highly appreciative and cordial 
terms of the letter of the President and Secretaries trans¬ 
mitting that Resolution. 
“ Such commendation from a Learned Society with which I 
have been associated for over fifty years is no slight one, and 
greatly enhances the distinction of the Medal in question. I 
cannot say how much I owe to the kindness and encouragement 
I have always met with from the Society collectively and from 
so many individual members of it, and I recognise that the 
Medal is as much due to the countenance and aid thus 
generously given me as to any efforts of my own. 
“ I find pleasure in thinking that Mr. Darwin himself would 
have approved of the award this year to an entomologist whom 
he knew, and who had the happiness of rendering him some 
slight aid in his researches. For was not that greatest of 
naturalists’ first love beetles 1 —and has he not himself recorded 
that his favourite toast at Cambridge was ‘ Floreat Entomo- 
logia! ’ 1 All of us heartily re-echo this aspiration, and it 
might well be adopted as the motto of our Society, 
“ Your faithful and attached Colleague, 
“Roland Trimen.” 
Another great naturalist, w’hom we may claim as an 
Honorary Fellow of our Society, is the veteran French ento¬ 
mologist, J, H. Fabre, of Serignan, Vaucluse, whose eightieth 
birthday was signalised by a festival held in his honour at 
Orange, on the 3rd of April. The committee formed to 
promote this object contained some of the names most 
