﻿TROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOUHTII 
  ENTOirOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  3 
  

  

  At 
  our 
  Second 
  and 
  Third 
  Meetings 
  I 
  took 
  the 
  occasion 
  to 
  address 
  you 
  

   on 
  various 
  subjects 
  and 
  on 
  this 
  occasion 
  I 
  propose 
  to 
  speak 
  to 
  you 
  regard- 
  

   ing 
  various 
  happenings 
  since 
  we 
  last 
  met, 
  next 
  to 
  place 
  before 
  you 
  a 
  

   few 
  subjects 
  of 
  common 
  interest, 
  and 
  then 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  few 
  remarks 
  upon 
  

   the 
  programme 
  before 
  us. 
  

  

  The 
  last 
  two 
  years 
  have 
  been, 
  I 
  think 
  I 
  may 
  say, 
  years 
  of 
  steady 
  

   progress 
  in 
  Indian 
  Entomology. 
  There 
  has 
  been 
  no 
  striking 
  advance 
  to 
  

   chronicle 
  but 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  continuance 
  of 
  the 
  solid 
  work 
  of 
  laying 
  

   foundations 
  on 
  which 
  we 
  shall 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  build 
  later 
  on. 
  There 
  has 
  been 
  

   expansion 
  of 
  the 
  entomological 
  staff 
  employed 
  by 
  the 
  creation 
  in 
  the 
  

   Agricultural 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  post 
  of 
  Government 
  Entomologist 
  in 
  

   the 
  Punjab 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Forest 
  Department 
  of 
  a 
  post 
  of 
  Systematic 
  Entomo- 
  

   logist 
  at 
  Dehra 
  Dun. 
  The 
  Zoological 
  Survey 
  has 
  lost 
  the 
  services 
  of 
  

   Dr. 
  Gravely 
  but 
  happily 
  his 
  transfer 
  to 
  the 
  Madras 
  Museum 
  does 
  not 
  

   cause 
  him 
  to 
  be 
  lost 
  to 
  Indian 
  Entomology. 
  Amongst 
  those 
  who 
  were 
  

   present 
  at 
  former 
  Meetings 
  we 
  shall 
  miss 
  the 
  face 
  of 
  Mr. 
  K. 
  D. 
  Shroff 
  by 
  

   resignation 
  of 
  his 
  appointment, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  held 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Ghosh, 
  trans- 
  

   ferred 
  from 
  Pusa. 
  We 
  are 
  glad 
  to 
  see 
  amongst 
  us 
  again 
  Eao 
  Sahib 
  Y. 
  

   Eamachandra 
  Rao, 
  whom 
  we 
  may 
  well 
  congratulate 
  on 
  his 
  well-deserved 
  

   honour, 
  this 
  being, 
  I 
  may 
  add, 
  the 
  first 
  occasion 
  that 
  a 
  distinction 
  has 
  

   been 
  conferred 
  on 
  any 
  purely 
  entomological 
  worker 
  in 
  India. 
  

  

  The 
  two 
  years 
  which 
  have 
  elapsed 
  since 
  our 
  last 
  Meeting 
  have 
  un- 
  

   fortunately 
  taken 
  their 
  toll 
  of 
  the 
  small 
  body 
  of 
  workers 
  on 
  Ind'an 
  

   Entomology, 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  to 
  deplore 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  four 
  of 
  our 
  fellow- 
  

   workers. 
  

  

  Francis 
  Milburn 
  Howlett, 
  Imperial 
  Pathological 
  Entomologist 
  to 
  the 
  

   Government 
  of 
  India, 
  died 
  at 
  Masuri 
  on 
  20th 
  August 
  1920 
  after 
  a 
  severe 
  

   operation. 
  Born 
  in 
  January 
  1877, 
  he 
  was 
  the 
  eldest 
  son 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  F. 
  J. 
  

   Howlett, 
  of 
  Wymondham, 
  Norfolk, 
  and 
  of 
  Mrs. 
  Howlett, 
  now 
  of 
  Norwich. 
  

   He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  Wymondham 
  Grammar 
  School 
  and 
  at 
  Berkham- 
  

   psted 
  School, 
  whence 
  in 
  1896 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  Christ's 
  College, 
  Cambridge, 
  

   where 
  he 
  gained 
  a 
  scholarship. 
  He 
  left 
  Cambridge 
  in 
  1900 
  and 
  was 
  

   for 
  some 
  time 
  on 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  Merchant 
  Taylor's 
  school. 
  In 
  1905 
  

   he 
  came 
  out 
  to 
  India 
  to 
  Allahabad 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  Professor 
  of 
  Biology 
  

   at 
  the 
  Muir 
  College 
  for 
  about 
  two 
  years, 
  and 
  in 
  November 
  1907 
  was 
  

   transferred 
  to 
  the 
  Indian 
  Agricultural 
  Service 
  as 
  Second 
  Imperial 
  

   Entomologist, 
  a 
  title 
  subsequently 
  changed 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  Imperial 
  Patho- 
  

   logical 
  Entomologist, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  capacity 
  his 
  work 
  dealt 
  with 
  all 
  

   insects 
  carrying 
  disease 
  to 
  men 
  and 
  other 
  animals. 
  From 
  early 
  

   youth 
  Howlett 
  had 
  a 
  strong 
  taste 
  for 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  insects, 
  especially 
  of 
  

   Diptera, 
  his 
  first 
  paper, 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Entomologists^ 
  Monthly 
  Magazine 
  

   for 
  1907, 
  dealing 
  with 
  the 
  mating 
  habits 
  of 
  Empis 
  borealis. 
  During 
  the 
  

  

  