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illustrious in the Science and Literature of France ; nor were 

 our own countrymen forgotten. A presentation was made to 

 the hero of the day, including a fine plaquette, a duplicate 

 copy of which I had the pleasure of exhibiting lately 

 in this room. Several Fellows of our Society contributed 

 towards the fund raised for the occasion, and I cannot resist 

 quoting a few words from the letter of acknowledgment 

 written by Dr. Legros, the Secretary of the movement : — 



" Je vous prie, Monsieur le President, de recevoir pour vous- 

 meme et de vouloir bien transmettre aux genereux donatenrs 

 1'expression de la profonde gratitude des organisateurs du 

 comite. La noble Angleterre vient de nous donner une preuve 

 de plus de ses traditions de courtoisie et de solidarite." 



This, I think, may be taken as something more than mere 

 conventional politeness. I prefer to see in it evidence of what 

 I am convinced is a fact, viz. that nothing is more apt to 

 promote feelings of international goodwill than community of 

 scientific interests. 



If we wished for another indication of the truth of this 

 opinion, we should find it in the excellent and interesting 

 account of the Jubilee of the Entomological Society of Russia, 

 furnished to our Proceedings by Dr. Malcolm Burr, who so 

 worthily represented us on that occasion. 



Our representatives at the Zoological Congress at Graz were 

 the Hon. W. Rothschild and Dr. Karl Jordan. The entomo- 

 logists there present were few, but made up in quality what 

 they lacked in number. Many of our Society will be pleased 

 to know that the long-continued experimental work of Pro- 

 fessor Max Standf uss was recognised at the Congress by the 

 bestowal on him of a special honour. 



But if entomologists at Graz were few and far between, 

 they had mustered in good force at Brussels for the First 

 International Congress of Entomology. The success of this 

 undertaking was undoubted. The social and scientific aspects 

 of the Congress were both felt to be of high value ; and the 

 fact that Brussels was en fete over the Exhibition with a gaiety 

 not yet sobered by the deplorable conflagration, while it 

 may have led here and there to a little crowding and incon- 

 venience, yet provided ample compensation, especially for the 



