anniversary abbress of the president. 



By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, B.A. 



(Read May 4th, 1920). 



|N commencing this, my sixteenth Annual Address, 

 I am glad to state that the losses by death amongst 

 our members are much fewer than those mentioned 

 in my last Address. Last year I had to record 

 the loss of Dr. Frederick du Cane Godman, F.R.S., and I now 

 with equal regret allude to the death of another distinguished 

 naturalist, Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., who joined our Club in 

 the same year, 1895, and for the same reason, namely, the 

 beautiful plates of moths and larvae with which Mrs. Richard- 

 son illustrated so many of my papers on lepidoptera which 

 appeared in our earlier volumes, and which I used to send to 

 him and other entomological friends and correspondents. He 

 was, above all, an authority on the small moths, the micro- 

 lepidoptera, one of which, discovered by myself at Portland, 

 he kindly did me the honour to name after me. Besides 

 entomology, he was well up in other branches of natural 

 history, and famous as a sportsman. In 1910 he presented his 

 immense collection of the microlepidoptera of the world to the 



