﻿of 
  duty 
  in 
  Tropical 
  Africa, 
  and 
  of 
  W. 
  E. 
  Sharp, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   able 
  and 
  energetic 
  students 
  of 
  British 
  Coleoptera, 
  until 
  quite 
  

   lately 
  a 
  familiar 
  figure 
  at 
  our 
  meetings, 
  and 
  whose 
  genial 
  and 
  

   sympathetic 
  nature 
  endeared 
  him 
  to 
  all 
  of 
  us. 
  We 
  rarely 
  

   saw 
  Sir 
  Frank 
  Crisp, 
  who 
  joined 
  the 
  Society 
  as 
  long 
  ago 
  as 
  

   1880, 
  and 
  who 
  was 
  perhaps 
  best 
  known 
  as 
  an 
  eminent 
  micro- 
  

   scopist 
  and 
  botanist, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  a 
  tower 
  of 
  strength 
  to 
  the 
  

   Linnean 
  Society. 
  Other 
  Fellows 
  who 
  have 
  j)assed 
  from 
  among 
  

   us 
  are 
  Lt.-Col. 
  L. 
  Blaythwayt, 
  G. 
  M. 
  Carson, 
  H. 
  A. 
  Fry, 
  F. 
  

   Hannyngton, 
  T. 
  Nottidge, 
  E. 
  J. 
  Patterson, 
  S. 
  Wacher, 
  and 
  

   F. 
  H. 
  Wolley-Dod, 
  the 
  last-named 
  being 
  distinguished 
  for 
  

   his 
  researches 
  and 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  the 
  

   western 
  regions 
  of 
  British 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  perhaps 
  a 
  natural 
  result 
  of 
  my 
  career 
  in 
  the 
  Royal 
  Navy, 
  

   in 
  which 
  I 
  had 
  the 
  good 
  fortune 
  to 
  observe 
  and 
  to 
  study 
  insect 
  

   life, 
  however 
  superficially 
  at 
  times, 
  in 
  many 
  remote 
  and 
  rarely 
  

   visited 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  that 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  Geograj)hical 
  

   Distribution 
  has 
  always 
  appealed 
  to 
  me 
  more 
  strongly 
  than 
  

   has 
  any 
  other 
  aspect 
  of 
  our 
  Science. 
  Gn 
  the 
  present 
  occasion 
  

   it 
  has 
  occurred 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  a 
  useful 
  purpose 
  may 
  be 
  served, 
  

   by 
  bringing 
  together 
  as 
  many 
  as 
  possible 
  of 
  the 
  available 
  records 
  

   of 
  those 
  hardy 
  and 
  adventurous 
  butterflies 
  which 
  have 
  pene- 
  

   trated 
  northward 
  and 
  southward 
  to 
  the 
  extreme 
  limits 
  of 
  

   terrestrial 
  life, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  most 
  remote 
  islands 
  in 
  mid-ocean. 
  

   I 
  therefore 
  venture 
  to 
  suggest, 
  as 
  the 
  title 
  of 
  my 
  Address 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  Fringes 
  of 
  Butterfly 
  Life." 
  

   Commencing 
  our 
  circuit 
  of 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  Polar 
  

   Ocean 
  with 
  Norwegian 
  Lapland, 
  we 
  find 
  here 
  a 
  butterfly 
  fauna 
  

   of 
  unexpected 
  richness 
  and 
  variety 
  for 
  so 
  high 
  a 
  latitude. 
  

   Our 
  enterprising 
  Fellows, 
  Messrs. 
  Rowland-Brown 
  and 
  Sheldon, 
  

   have 
  in 
  recent 
  years 
  visited 
  this 
  very 
  interesting 
  region, 
  and 
  

   we 
  are 
  greatly 
  indebted 
  to 
  them 
  for 
  their 
  delightful 
  and 
  valuable 
  

   papers 
  on 
  Lapland 
  butterflies 
  in 
  the 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Ento- 
  

   mologist 
  " 
  for 
  1906 
  and 
  1912. 
  Herr 
  J. 
  Sparre-Schneider 
  

   enumerates 
  no 
  fewer 
  than 
  forty-six 
  species 
  which 
  extend 
  their 
  

   range 
  beyond 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Circle, 
  and 
  of 
  these 
  such 
  familiar 
  forms 
  

   as 
  Papilio 
  machaon, 
  Pieris 
  brassicae 
  and 
  fiapi, 
  Callo2)hrys 
  rubi, 
  

   Vanessa 
  antiopa 
  and 
  urticae, 
  the 
  almost 
  world-wide 
  Pyrameis 
  

  

  