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ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



jjiouth London <Kntomolojgicul and Jtatural Sistonj 



Read January 23rd, 1908. 

 By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



THE Society's year has been an uneventful one. The 

 Treasurer's balance-sheet and the report of the Council, 

 that have already been read, show that there is a satisfactory 

 cash balance ; that the ordinary meetings throughout the 

 year have been well attended and fully as interesting as 

 usual ; that the field meetings have been successfully carried 

 through, and that our membership, although slightly smaller 

 than a year ago, is by no means unsatisfactory, in that the 

 elections have more than compensated the resignations, the 

 small decrease in the total being the result of writing off a 

 number of names that have been of no advantage to the 

 Society for some years past, and that ought to have been 

 removed from the list of members long since. Death has not 

 visited our members, but it has been busy among those 

 whom we have been proud to recognise as our friends. 

 Only within the last few days we have heard of the death 

 of two whom many of you knew well. 



Arthur John Chitty died January 6th, 1908, aged forty-eight 

 years. He was one of the youngest members of the Ento- 

 mological Club, and always solicitous to do his full share in 

 upholding the traditions of that venerable institution ; in 

 this connection he was probably well known to many of you. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of 



