membership owing to failing health. He will be well remem- 

 bered by our older members as the author of " The Insect- 

 Hunters' Companion " — a little book of small pretensions, 

 but which has run into some four editions ; and by his paper 

 on " Pupa Digging," first published in the Zoologist just half 

 a century ago. He found solace during the declining years 

 of his life in rearing vast numbers of A braxas grossulariata 

 from larvee collected chiefly from the Euonymus hedges in 

 the neighbourhood of his residence at Clifton, Bristol, by 

 which means he accumulated a great many more or less 

 striking varieties. 



Ebenezer Sabine died April 12th, aged yz years. He was 

 elected a member of this Society in 1886, and was an occa- 

 sional exhibitor at its meetings, but owing to a chest affec- 

 tion which rendered it undesirable for him to be out at night, 

 he resigned his membership a few years later. For the same 

 reason he ceased to take any great interest in the moths, and 

 for many years gave his undivided attention to the British 

 butterflies, of which he amassed a very remarkable collection, 

 including many fine series of varieties. At his death his 

 collections passed into the possession of Mr. A. B. Farn. 



Charles William Dale died February 20th, at the com- 

 paratively early age of 54. He inherited from his father, 

 who was so well known to the entomologists of a former 

 generation, his extensive collections, comprising all orders of 

 insects. To these he added considerably from time to time, 

 keeping them well up to date, and at his death bequeathed 

 them, under certain conditions, to the Oxford University 

 Museum. It is satisfactory to know that this historic 

 collection has fallen into such good hands. 



The ordinary meetings of the Society have been well 

 attended ; the exhibits at them have been somewhat more 

 numerous than of recent years, and fully up to the average 

 in point of interest. Several of our members continue to 

 pursue special lines of research, and to communicate notes 

 on the progress made to the meetings from time to time. In 

 this connection I should like to call attention, without wishing 

 in any way to draw invidious distinctions, to recent work 

 done in regard to the association between ants and many of 

 the Lycsenid larvae by Mr. Ray ward, the working out of 

 the life-histories of the Coleophorids by Mr. Turner, and the 

 photographic records of the eggs and earlier stages of the 

 Lepidoptera by Mr. Tonge. To Mr. F. Noad Clark we are, 

 I believe, indebted for the initiation of the latter class of work, 

 and it must be very satisfactory to him to find that it is pro- 



