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THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN, 
The “ Annual Report of the Council on the general concerns 
of the Society” having been laid before you in accordance with our 
bye-laws, I shall confine the few remarks I have to make chiefly to 
the progress of Entomology during the past year. 
I must, however, congratulate you on the accession of fifty-nine 
new Members since our last Anniversary, and I think I may say that 
never were the prospects of the Society better, or the energy of its 
Members more apparent. 
Let us also take a glance at the career of one or two of those who 
have gone from among us; for we have lost, by death, two of our 
Honorary, three of our Ordinary, and one of our Corresponding 
Members. 
Few Entomologists have enjoyed a higher reputation than Prof. Dr. 
Schaum, of Berlin. Born at Glogau in 1819, the nephew of Germar 
at an early age exhibited a liking for our Science, and his inaugural 
dissertation at the University of Halle (* Analecta Entomologica,’ pub- 
lished in 1841) treated of Scydmenus, Cremastocheilus and Cetonia. 
From that time down to his death his pen was never idle ; his nume- 
rous contributions to Germar’s Zeitschrift, the Stettin Ent. Zeit., the 
Berlin Ent. Zeitsch., the Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., the Transactions of 
this Society, and many other scientific publications, are sufficient 
evidence of his activity. His Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Europe 
is too well known to require mention at my hands; the Hemiptera 
and Orthoptera of Peters’ ‘ Reise nach Mossambique’ were the work 
of our late colleague ; but undoubtedly his greatest undertakipg was 
the continuation of Erichson’s ‘ Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutsch- 
lands,’ to which he contributed the Geodephaga. 
Dr. Léon Dufour devoted himself chiefly to the study of the ana- 
tomy and metamorphoses of insects; his numerous papers on these 
and kindred subjects extend over a period of more than half a century. 
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