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involves, as I well know, the expenditure of much time aud 

 trouble. At the conclusion of my first year of office I wish 

 to add to the thanks of the Society an expression of my own 

 personal gratitude for the assistance and support 1 have 

 received at all times from those gentlemen I have mentioned, 

 and from my other colleagues on the Council and Publications 

 Committee. One and all have united to make the task of 

 your President an easy and pleasant one to fulfil. 



During the past year several of our number have dropped 

 out of the ranks. We have to deplore the loss of Captain 

 Frederick Hallam Hardy, R.A.M.C, whose Fellowship of 

 the Society dates only from 1908; of John Brown, noted for 

 hiss[ ecial knowledge of the old fen fauna, and H. G. Paldser 

 who joined us in 1886 and 1898 respectively. 



Another of our Fellows, H. W. Barker, who died on 

 September 21st, at the age of 49, was well known to many 

 entomologists as the active and efficient Honorary Secretary of 

 the South London Entomological and Natural History Society 

 from 1886 to 1893, and also as an industrious collector of 

 British Lepidoptera. He had been a Fellow of our Society 

 since 1887. 



One summer day, many years ago, as I was wandering 

 about country lanes, a schoolboy with a butterfly-net, I was 

 accosted by a pleasant-looking young man, who, after asking 

 me wh tt success I had hud, bestowed on me some excellent 

 advice as to where to go and what to look for. At parting 

 he gave me his card, and invited me to call on him. The 

 name on the card was H. C. Lang. I never saw him again, 

 but I have always remembered his kindness to a stranger 

 whose only claim on him was the f reemasoni-y of entomologists. 

 The news of his sad death within the last few weeks has come 

 as a great shock not only to all who have ever been brought 

 into [ ersonal contact with him, but also to all who realise 

 how much he has done to create and ioster among British 

 entomologists an interest in the butteifly fauna of Europe. 

 The Rev. Henry Charles Lang, M.D., was, I believe, a Fellow 

 of this Society iu early days, and after an interval rejoined 

 us in 19U0. 



Outside the circle of our own Society, we have to lament 



