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continued ill-health to give up the onerous duties of Hon. 
Secretary of this Society, and to its profound regret the Council 
had to accept his resignation from an office which he held with 
such distinction since 1911. Mr. Wheeler’s predecessor in 
office, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, kindly consented to undertake 
again the duties of Hon. Sec., but a very serious illness which 
attacked him in the summer and rendered him prostrate did 
not permit him to continue in office. We are all most grateful 
to both Mr. G. Wheeler and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown for their 
great services to this Society, and we all wish and hope that 
both will speedily recover and continue in full health their 
entomological work in the field and again be among us in these 
rooms at our meetings and social gatherings. We have to 
tender our best thanks to Dr. H. Eltringham for coming to 
the rescue and accepting the office left vacant by the resignation 
of Mr. H. Rowland-Brown. 
The bereavements of the Society by the death of Fellows 
have been unusually numerous and severe during the past 
session. Death has struck off our rolls no less than eighteen 
Fellows. Several of them have been such familiar figures at 
our meetings that we shall greatly miss them from our gather- 
ings, though they will ever remain present in our minds as 
devoted fellow-Entomologists. 
Dr. G. B. Longstaff, whose generosity towards our Society 
when he was already very ill and could no longer attend the 
meetings is still fresh in our memory, was a man of wide 
interests with a great love of nature, science and art. His 
contributions to Entomology and the ever-ready support 
his sympathetic nature accorded to science with sound counsel 
and generous deed, and the collections made during his exten- 
sive travels and presented to the Hope Department, are only 
part of the many services he rendered his country. Public 
affairs had his devoted attention no less than science, and his 
work as a member of the London County Council was as 
thorough and circumspect as everything his energetic and 
persevering nature undertook or investigated. As an Entomo- 
logist he was much more than a collector. His active mind 
considered the amassing of specimens and field observations 
not as the final object of Entomology, but as a means to the 
