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ture and the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, this office 

 giving him the opportunity of continuing his studies on the 

 Hemiptera, and especially on the Fulgoridae. His " Catalogue 

 of the Hemiptera," which was to have included the whole 

 Order, has been published in part, and it is understood that 

 further instalments will be issued under the auspices of 

 M. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, to whose charge Kirkaldy's 

 unpublished manuscripts and notes have been committed. 

 Mr. F. W. Terry, to whom I am indebted for many of the 

 details just given, has written as follows of his deceased 

 associate : " A voluminous writer and wide reader, a staunch 

 friend and genial companion, he was always ready to give 

 others the benefit of his wide bibliographical knowledge. 

 His optimistic and kindly personality will be greatly missed 

 by his friends and colleagues." 



George Carter Bignell, known for his earlier work on 

 Lepidoptera and his later researches on various forms of 

 parasites, especially those infesting the Aphides, died early 

 in the year at the ripe age of eighty-four. 



Other losses have been suffered by our Society in the deaths 

 of Albert Piffard, a well-known traveller, whose entomo- 

 logical interests were chiefly engaged in the collection and 

 study of Coleoptera and Diptera ; and in those of Oliver 

 C. Goldthwait, George Henry, and W. A. Luff. 



But unfortunately the death-roll of 1910 does not exhaust 

 the list of our losses. Within the last few days we have 

 received the sad intelligence that James William Tutt, a 

 member of our Council and President-nominate, is no more. 

 This is not the time or the place to attempt a full apprecia- 

 tion of his personal qualities, or of the services which he has 

 rendered to entomology in general and to our own Society in 

 particular. But I may at least be permitted to recall his 

 untiring industry, his exemplary thoroughness, his contagious 

 enthusiasm, and that over-mastering love of his subject which 

 constrained him to devote the scanty leisure of a busy pro- 

 fessional life to the single-minded pursuit of his entomological 

 studies. To what good purpose he used his opportunities we 

 all know ; and those of us who have had occasion to serve 

 with him on the Council and Publications Committee will be 



