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each for six years. Nine of the twenty are still amongst us, and I am 

 pleased to see that several of them are present this evening. 



Gentlemen, I can only regret that, by the irony of fate, it has fallen 

 to my lot to fill the Presidential Chair on this occasion, when, of all 

 others, it ought to have been occupied by one of the Fathers of British 

 Entomology. But you have willed it otherwise, and I will bury my regret ; 

 nay, it is already swallowed up in the delight I feel at the commission 

 with which I have been entrusted by the unanimous voice of the Council, 

 and I am sure that the proposition I have now to make will meet with 

 your approval, and be carried by acclamation. 



I have to suggest that Prof. Westwood be made titular Life-President 

 of the Society. 



There is no man to whom we as a body owe so much. An Original 

 Member, he has never failed us ; during the crucial period of our childhood 

 he was the motive power, the life and soul of the Society ; for fourteen 

 consecutive years he was Secretary, and for part of that time he was 

 Curator also. The Council has seldom been complete without him ; he 

 has beeu Vice-President times without number, and during six years 

 (1851-52, 72-73, 76-77) he was our President. Whilst he resided in or 

 near London he rarely missed one of our meetings ; even Oxford cannot 

 keep him away from us ; and there is not a single year from first to last 

 that he has not been a contributor to our ' Transactions.' From 1827 to 

 the present time his pen and his pencil have never been idle ; his papers 

 are scattered broadcast over the scientific publications of this and other 

 countries ; and to single out a few of his more important works it is 

 enough to mention the ' Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects' (1839-40), the 'Arcana Entomologica ' (1841-45), the 'Cabinet 

 of Oriental Entomology' (1848), the 'Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera' 

 (1852), and the 'Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis' (1874). What do 

 we not owe to Westwood's ' Introduction ' ? has it not been to many of the 

 present generation of entomologists the very fountain and sole source of 

 their scientific views? His labours have ranged over the whole domain 

 of our Science. Specialists may excel in their own particular groups, but 

 as a general entomologist have we a man to compare with him ? 



Scientific bodies, both at home and abroad, have delighted to do him 

 honour : the Entomological Societies of France and Holland, of Berlin, 

 Stettin, and St. Petersburg have claimed him for their Honorary List : 

 other Scientific Associations in France, Germany and Austria, in Russia 

 and Scandinavia, in the United States of North America and the Dominion 

 of Canada, have vied with each other in conferring upon him such 

 distinctions as lay in their power ; Brazil has made him a Knight of the 

 Imperial Order of the Hose; and if scientific knighthood carried any 

 outward sign, his breast would be one blaze of stars. 



