﻿Ill 
  

  

  Wednesday, 
  March 
  5th, 
  1919. 
  

  

  Comni. 
  J. 
  J. 
  Walker, 
  M.A., 
  R.N., 
  F.L.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  

   the 
  Cliair. 
  

  

  Election 
  of 
  Fellows. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  II. 
  11. 
  CoRBETT, 
  3 
  Thorne 
  Road, 
  Doncaster, 
  and 
  Major 
  

   W. 
  J. 
  Patton, 
  I.M.S., 
  Stoke 
  St. 
  Gregory, 
  nr. 
  Taunton, 
  were 
  

   elected 
  Fellows 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Death 
  of 
  a 
  former 
  President. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  announced 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  Ducane 
  

   GoDMAN, 
  D.C.L., 
  F.R.S., 
  formerly 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  

   and 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  appreciation 
  written 
  by 
  Lord 
  

   Walsingham 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  The 
  death 
  of 
  Frederick 
  Du 
  Cane 
  Godman, 
  D.C.L., 
  F.R.S., 
  

   has 
  deprived 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  the 
  unique 
  per- 
  

   sonality 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  its 
  oldest 
  and 
  most 
  distinguished 
  Fellows, 
  

   who 
  was 
  its 
  President 
  in 
  1891 
  and 
  1892. 
  

  

  It 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  too 
  much 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  no 
  single 
  individual 
  

   in 
  the 
  lifetime 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  generation 
  has 
  rendered 
  greater 
  

   service 
  to 
  the 
  systematic 
  study 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  or 
  contri- 
  

   buted 
  more 
  generously 
  to 
  promote 
  scientific 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  various 
  

   branches 
  of 
  zoology, 
  especially 
  of 
  ornithology 
  and 
  entomology, 
  

   in 
  which 
  he 
  himself 
  took 
  so 
  great 
  an 
  interest. 
  The 
  pre- 
  

   eminent 
  labours 
  of 
  a 
  Darwin 
  or 
  a 
  Hooker 
  are 
  rendered 
  possible 
  

   only 
  by 
  the 
  patient 
  study 
  of 
  accumulated 
  material, 
  together 
  

   with 
  the 
  recorded 
  observations 
  of 
  intelligent 
  collectors. 
  No 
  

   one 
  recognised 
  more 
  clearly 
  than 
  Mr. 
  Godman, 
  from 
  the 
  days 
  

   when 
  he 
  travelled 
  widely 
  in 
  early 
  life, 
  that 
  if 
  a 
  thorough 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  species 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  geographical 
  distribution 
  of 
  

   species 
  was 
  ever 
  to 
  be 
  obtained 
  this 
  could 
  be 
  accomphshed 
  

   only 
  by 
  patient 
  and 
  extensive 
  collecting, 
  and 
  by 
  bringing 
  the 
  

   results 
  together 
  to 
  enable 
  students 
  tf) 
  draw 
  concslusions 
  by 
  the 
  

   arrangement 
  of 
  specimens 
  in 
  systematic 
  order. 
  He 
  desired 
  

   at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  to 
  render 
  all 
  information 
  widely 
  available 
  

   by 
  means 
  of 
  scientific 
  descriptions 
  and 
  illustration. 
  It 
  was 
  

   evident 
  to 
  him 
  that 
  no 
  exotic 
  fauna 
  had 
  yet 
  been 
  completely 
  

  

  