﻿may 
  regret 
  having 
  sooner 
  or 
  later 
  to 
  leave 
  our 
  present 
  quarters, 
  

   with 
  their 
  advantages 
  of 
  central 
  situation 
  and 
  ready 
  accessi- 
  

   bility, 
  and 
  their 
  associations 
  with 
  the 
  memories 
  of 
  forty-five 
  

   years 
  of 
  the 
  Society's 
  history, 
  we 
  can 
  only 
  trust 
  that 
  our 
  

   efforts 
  in 
  that 
  direction 
  may 
  be 
  crowned 
  with 
  success 
  in 
  the 
  

   near 
  future. 
  

  

  The 
  honour 
  you 
  have 
  conferred 
  upon 
  me 
  by 
  my, 
  election 
  

   to 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  President 
  has 
  involved 
  the 
  choice 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  

   Secretary 
  in 
  my 
  place, 
  and 
  the 
  Society 
  may 
  be 
  congratulated 
  

   in 
  having 
  found 
  in 
  Dr. 
  S. 
  A. 
  Neave 
  a 
  Fellow 
  who 
  has 
  proved 
  

   himself 
  so 
  highly 
  qualified 
  in 
  all 
  respects 
  for 
  this 
  somewhat 
  

   onerous 
  but 
  highly 
  interesting 
  and 
  enjoyable 
  office 
  — 
  I 
  speak 
  

   from 
  experience. 
  To 
  Dr. 
  Neave 
  and 
  his 
  colleague 
  the 
  Rev, 
  

   G. 
  Wheeler, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  other 
  Officers 
  and 
  Members 
  of 
  

   Council, 
  my 
  best 
  thanks 
  are 
  due 
  for 
  their 
  steady 
  and 
  unfailing 
  

   support 
  and 
  assistance 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  session. 
  

  

  I 
  regret 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  our 
  losses 
  by 
  death 
  have 
  been 
  more 
  

   numerous 
  than 
  usual, 
  and 
  two 
  of 
  our 
  Fellows 
  who 
  have 
  gone 
  

   from 
  us 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  front 
  rank 
  of 
  Entomological 
  Science, 
  

   and 
  in 
  former 
  years 
  were 
  among 
  the 
  most 
  distinguished 
  occu- 
  

   pants 
  of 
  the 
  Presidential 
  Chair. 
  On 
  February 
  19th 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  

   Du 
  Cane 
  Godman 
  passed 
  away, 
  full 
  of 
  years 
  and 
  honours, 
  and 
  

   the 
  generous 
  appreciation 
  by 
  Lord 
  Walsingham 
  of 
  his 
  life-work 
  

   and 
  personality, 
  read 
  by 
  me 
  from 
  the 
  Chair 
  at 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   immediately 
  after 
  his 
  death, 
  is 
  still 
  fresh 
  in 
  the 
  recollection 
  

   of 
  all 
  of 
  us. 
  We 
  may, 
  I 
  think, 
  agree 
  that 
  this 
  noble 
  tribute 
  

   to 
  the 
  memory 
  of 
  our 
  late 
  valued 
  colleague 
  applies 
  in 
  very 
  

   large 
  measure 
  to 
  its 
  own 
  writer, 
  whose 
  unexpected 
  decease 
  

   on 
  December 
  3rd 
  it 
  was 
  my 
  painful 
  duty 
  to 
  announce 
  to 
  the 
  

   Society 
  at 
  our 
  meeting 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  evening. 
  I 
  fear 
  it 
  will 
  

   be 
  long 
  indeed 
  before 
  the 
  places 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  great 
  masters 
  

   of 
  our 
  Science 
  can 
  be 
  adequately 
  filled. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  also 
  to 
  regret 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  the 
  veteran 
  Major 
  Thomas 
  

   Broun, 
  whose 
  great 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  beetles 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  con- 
  

   tinued 
  through 
  many 
  years, 
  has 
  revealed 
  to 
  us 
  the 
  marvellous 
  

   Coleopterous 
  fauna 
  of 
  those 
  most 
  interesting 
  islands 
  in 
  the 
  

   far 
  South 
  ; 
  of 
  Hereward 
  DoUman, 
  a 
  young 
  and 
  highly 
  promising 
  

   Entomologist 
  and 
  an 
  accomplished 
  artist, 
  whose 
  premature 
  

   death 
  was 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  a 
  fell 
  disease 
  contracted 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  

  

  