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THE PEESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



Time, in its inexorable flight, has again brought round 

 to me the duty as well as the privilege of delivering to jou, as 

 President of the Entomological Society, one of those annual 

 addresses which are expected to afford a concise view of the pro- 

 gress of Entomological Science during the past year. Looking 

 still further back, during the long vista of half a century, what 

 abundant sources of congratulation do I not observe in the now 

 wide-spread cultivation of our favourite science — mixed, like 

 everything of this earth, with deep regrets at the heavy losses 

 which we have sustained by the deaths of so many of our scientific 

 friends. 



You have been made acquainted, in the very satisfactory Report 

 from the Council which has just been read, with the material 

 condition of our Society, and have testified, by the full attendance 

 at our meetings, to the scientific advantages resulting from such 

 gatherings, and which, in our case, have originated in a desire to 

 extend the subjects of our meetings beyond the mere technical 

 details and descriptions of new species. I may in a more especial 

 manner allude to the great additions which have been made to our 

 Library, which ought to be highly appreciated by our members, 

 owing to the liberal use which is allowed to be made of the books ; 

 still more especially do I feel bound to allude to tiie very valuable 

 series of memoirs (being the whole of the entomological papers 

 published by the Royal Society of Sweden during the last ten 

 years) which we owe to the liberality of that Society, as well as to 

 the very numerous and valuable donations made to the Library 

 by Mr. Dunning. 



Obituary. 



I regret to announce the loss of several of our oldest ento- 

 mologists during the past year. 



George Robert Gray, F.R.S., was one of the founders of this 

 Society, and, although more especially attached to Ornithology, 



