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against the "scant measure of fair play " with which Darwin 

 had been treated in that organ. The Origin of Species had very 

 recently appeared : and a defender of Darwin might — though 

 I know not if it was so in this case — have felt somewhat ill at 

 ease in his relations with colleagues, who at that time, almost 

 without exception, seemed to regard it as a duty to compass 

 about the new doctrine with words of hatred, and shoot out 

 their arrows (even bitter words) against its author. " No 

 body of men," wrote Darwin some years later, " were at first 

 so much opposed to my views as the London Entomological 

 Society." Indeed, I fear it must be acknowledged, that the 

 part taken in that great controversy by Entomologists in 

 general, and the then representatives of our Society in par- 

 ticular, was not one on which we can look back with satis- 

 faction ; but it is a comfort to feel that, even in those days, 

 there were a few (and not the least noteworthy) among our 

 Fellows, who refused to join the "common cry." One of 

 these we are now called upon to remember ; let us remember 

 him with respect, and not without a sense of gratitude ! 



Herbert Jordan Adams, together with his brother, the 

 well-known Dipterist, became a Fellow in 1877. I regret 

 that in this case, again, I cannot speak with the authority of 

 personal acquaintance. But we probably all know that he 

 formed a magnificent Collection of Lepidoptera, which is now 

 treasured separately, as " The Adams Collection," in the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington. An earlier 

 formed British collection of the same Order was bequeathed 

 to the Enfield Entomological Society, which he had helped to 

 found. He was born in 1838, and died on March 1st last 

 year. 



Robert Walter Campbell Shelford became a Fellow in 

 1901, and served on our Council in 1907 and 1908. After 

 obtaining Honours in the Schools of Natural Science at 

 Cambridge, and teaching Biology for two years in the York- 

 shire College at Leeds, he became Curator of the Sarawak 

 Museum. The seven years spent by him in that capacity 

 were a period of great importance both to the development of 

 the latter institution, whose collections he greatly improved, 

 and to his own education as a Naturalist. Returning to 



