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mucli real pleasure, years of work made easy by their thought 

 and kindness. 



The obituary is always a sad necessity — we have lost 

 by death six Fellows, viz. Edwin Newson Bloomfield, B. C. 

 Chetty, H. T. Dobson, Henry Herbert Lyman, Ernest Olivier 

 and William Warren. 



It is impossible to close this prologue to the main topic of 

 my address without any reference to the greatest calamity 

 that has fallen upon us, and I may say upon the whole civilised 

 world. Whether this terrible war will be the last great war 

 among the nations — who can tell ? Perchance, when it is 

 over and in cold blood the instigators of it, as well as all 

 participators in it, review the frightful tragedy thereof, is it 

 too much to hope that a higher ideal than " might is right " 

 may yet be reached ? — that is a doctrine that is not admitted 

 for the individual, even by the nation who would force it on 

 the world to-day. Surely, however, the nation should be 

 higher than the individual in its aims, so that after this 

 madness of greed is past, and all settle down and ponder, as 

 ponder they must, then perchance the blunt old English 

 adage " Live and let live " may yet be accepted even by our 

 foes ; and from that may all go on to recognise and build 

 up, in the common cause of a world humanity, such a comity 

 of nations as will prevent for all time the possibility of one 

 country ever obtaining the mastery and control of all with 

 whom it may come into contact ; but for this it will be neces- 

 sary for each race to act on the principle that honour and 

 right dealing stand above a nation's individual claims, in any 

 case where the tw^o come into conflict. 



I will now proceed with the subject of my address, 



" The Development of Clasping Organs in Insects." 



It will without doubt be understood that clasping organs 

 refer to the more or less external armature at the telum. 



It will perhaps be well first of all to point out the positions 

 of the various organs in the Lepidoptera, with, as far as I can, 

 their possible homologues in some other orders. We have in 

 the Lepidoptera, the tergite represented by the tegumen with 



