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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 19tJi, 1910. 



"To the Entomological Society of 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 Darwin Medal of 

 the Eoyal Society, and by the highly appreciative and cordial 

 terms of the letter of the President and Secretaries trans- 

 mitting that Pesolution. 



" 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, 



"Poland Trimen." 



Another great naturalist, whom 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 



