to military restrictions, and that the Chesil Beach on which I 

 spent man}^ enjoyable hours collecting last July is now a labyrinth 

 of barbed wire entanglement. He would, too, be a bold entomo- 

 logist who went about after dark with a bright lantern at the 

 present time. There is but little doubt that owing to the spread 

 of interest in the Study of Entomology during the last few years, 

 there has been a strong tendency to over-collect the fauna 

 native to the British Isles, and a period of cessation is more to 

 be welcomed than deplored from the entomological point of 

 view. 



As already mentioned in the Report, we have lost one member 

 by death, Mr. J. Alderson meeting a tragic end in a motor- 

 car accident ; and we also have to regret the inability to continue 

 as the Society's lanternist of Mr. F. Noad Clarke, to whom the 

 thanks of the Society have been due on so many occasions. 

 Mr. Dennis, who has kindly consented to succeed him, will 

 undoubtedly fill his post most successfully. 



Of entomologists outside the Society who have passed away 

 from us during the past twelve months, I regret to say that I 

 have a long list to record. 



The Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, who died on April 29th, at the 

 ripe age of 87, was one of the most loveable and well known 

 among British entomologists. He died at Guestling, near 

 Hastings, which Rectory he had held for exactly fifty years. 

 His chief hobby was the compilation of local catalogues, and 

 while his acquaintance was chief!}' with the lepidoptera, hymen- 

 optera and diptera (which he contributed to the Flora and 

 Fauna of Hastings, published in the seventies), it also comprised 

 the coleoptera and hemiptera. The range of his knowledge 

 extended to the mammals, birds, fashes, fungi, etc. His last 

 work, which has not yet been published, was a compilation of 

 the Diptera of Norfolk and Suffolk, while his last public appear- 

 ance was at the Verrall Supper in 191?*. 



George Bentley Corbin, Avhose death took place at Ringwood, 

 on March 12th, at the age of 73, was a keen and observant 

 entomologist. He wrote the entomological chapter in Phillips' 

 New Forest Handbook and contributed some articles on Deiopeia 

 jndchella and Emifdia cribnun, and " Pliisia iiioneta in the New 

 Forest," to the " Entomologist." The news of the tragic death 

 of his wife, who was killed in a railway accident, caused partial 

 paralysis of the left side, and, though he to some extent recovered, 

 he remained an invalid for the remainder of his life. 



