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youngei’ and more sportive spirits amongst us. The Entomo¬ 
logical Society has every reason to be satisfied with the part 
played by its Fellows at the Congress. Not only Messrs. 
Trimen, Merrifield and Donisthorpe, who, with your Presi¬ 
dent, were specially deputed as representatives, but Professor 
Poulton, Professor Punnett, Hon. C. and Hon. W. Roths¬ 
child, Dr. Karl Jordan, Dr. Burr, and others too numerous to 
mention, were prominent in the proceedings. Brussels has 
given a good lead, which we may feel confident will be well 
followed up in this country next year under the auspices of 
Professor Poulton. When the International Congress has 
become an established and venerable institution, I trust it 
will not be forgotten that the impulse which set it going 
oi’iginated from Tring. 
While on the subject of the Congress I recall with pleasure 
the fact that a most agreeable feature was supplied by the 
appearance, during its progress, of Mr. Eltringham’s splendid 
work on Mimicry in African Butterflies, a book which I 
cordially commend to the notice of all those who are in any 
way interested in the subject of mimicry. 
Before turning to the more special portion of my Address, 
it now only remains for me to expi-ess my very grateful thanks 
to the Society in general, and to the Business and Publications 
Committee, the Council, and the Officers, in particular, for the 
pleasant term of office which I have enjoyed. The experience 
of another year in the Chair which my predecessor found 
materially, though I trust not morally, uncomfortable, has 
only served to deepen my former impression of the magnitude 
of the obligation which the Society owes to its Librarian, its 
Treasurer and its Secretaries. To repeat what I have said on 
a former occasion is unnecessary, but I cannot allow this 
opportunity to pass without adding a word of personal appre¬ 
ciation of the services of our retiring Honorary Secretary, Mr. 
H. Rowland-Bi’own. I count myself fortunate to have had 
the benefit of his assistance and advice, not only during my 
raw novitiate, but up to the end of my tenure of office. As 
the last of a long succession of Presidents whom he has helped 
to bring up in the way they should go, I congratulate him on 
his well-earned retirement, from which I venture to hope 
