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read and re-read, and (for a wonder) could thoroughly appre- 

 ciate, two works published by Fellows of our own, and each 

 stating the author's connection with our Society on its title- 

 page, and these works, I dare to say boldly, reflect credit on 

 our Society. They are not only most important and original 

 contributions to specialist knowledge, relating experiences 

 uniquely possessed by their respective authors — so that neither 

 could possibly have been produced by any other living writer 

 — but fill also places in standard Literature, which were 

 previously quite unoccupied, and which I believe they will 

 permanently hold. I do not think I shall abuse the freedom 

 of speech which is conceded to me by custom on this occasion, 

 if I congratulate both the authors and the Society on the 

 appearance within the year of two such works — calculated to 

 interest not specialists only, but even the general public, in 

 the subjects with which they deal, as Butterfly- Hunting in 

 Many Lands, by G. B. Longstaff, and llie Humble Bee, by 

 F. W. L. Sladen. 



I must now turn to a graver and less welcome topic. Since 

 our last Annual Meeting death has removed from our Society 

 Fellows who have left a name, and more than a name, behind 

 them ; and these losses must not be left unnoted to-night. 



Obituaries. 



Honorary Fellow. 



LuDWiG Ganglbauer, the eminent Viennese Coleopterist, 

 Director since 1906 of the Zoological Department of the 

 k.k. Hofmuseum, was elected in the same year an Honorary 

 Fellow of our Society. For many years he had been con- 

 spicuously zealous and successful as a curator of the Hof- 

 museum's splendid collection of Coleoptera. In that Order 

 (and especially in its Palaearctic representatives) he was an 

 expert of the highest rank and celebrity. He enriched its 

 literature with many important memoirs ; and the four 

 Volumes, which were all that he lived to issue, of his great 

 v/ork on TJie Beetles of Central Europe are universally recog- 

 nised as the standard authority on the Families with which 

 they deal. 



