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( Read May 16th, 1906.) 



COMMENCE my Address with an expression of deep 

 regret at the number of our friends who have 

 passed away since our last annual meeting, some 

 of whom were so frequently seen amongst us in 

 this room on these occasions. Mr. C. W. Dale 

 was an original member of our Club and (I 

 believe I am correct in saying so) the last survivor 

 of those who contributed the papers contained in 

 our first volume of Proceedings. We have had 

 other communications, both natural history and antiquarian, 

 from his pen, and he has also published " The History of 

 Glanvilles Wootton," "The History of British Butterflies," and 

 " The Lepidoptera of Dorset," as independent works, besides 

 numerous notes in the entomological magazines. In a general 

 all-round knowledge of insects there are few entomologists of 

 the present day who could compete with him, most of them 

 confining their attention to one or perhaps two orders, and his 

 fine collections made by his father, but much added to by 

 himself, and which are left to Oxford, can only be regarded 



