meetings, notwithstanding the opposition in some quarters to their 

 being held, were quite well attended, showing that there is a real 

 need for holding them. The field meetings h.k\e also been well 

 attended, excepting the one at Burnham Beeches, which was per- 

 haps too far off our usual localities to attract, or perhaps even to 

 allow of, some members being present. The weather was ideal in 

 every instance and it looks as if the persistent bad weather of 1910 

 was sufficient to account for the poor attendance in that year. 

 There is no reason to be dissatisfied with the record of 1911 and the 

 interest evinced at the field meetings, as judged by the attendances, 

 seems to be a real one. The exhibits have, I think, been far more 

 varied during the year that has just come to a close than in many 

 recent years. Three years ago Mr. A. Sich, then your president, from 

 this chair deplored the scarcity of exhibits in other orders than 

 Lepidoptera. A change has certainly taken place since then and we 

 should be grateful to Mr. Sich for having been the means of 

 remedying a state of affairs that need not exist. We cannot in- 

 dividually have an intimate knowledge of every branch of Natural 

 History, but we can know something about every order while we 

 are still specialists in our own one or possibly two favourite subjects. 

 Most people find it easy to learn something from an actual demons- 

 tration with the real thing, while just as many findit hard to remember 

 details from a mere written statement, more especially on a subject 

 they are not conversant with. Let us then continue to have a 

 varied list of exhibits, for they widen our knowledge and help to 

 make us all-round Naturalists. 



It is the painful duty of the president to refer to the losses the 

 Society has sustained by the death of its members or other notable 

 entomologists during the year. It used to be the proud boast 

 of entomologists that the votaries of their science and pastime 

 were a long lived race. But the year, 1911, as far as concerns this 

 Society, unfortunately has claimed several men who had not had by 

 any means long lives. The total list is a larger one than usual. 



Gerald George Hodgson, died on February 3rd at the age of 50. 

 He had been a member of this Society since 1907 and his face was 

 very well known at the meetings, at which also he frequently 

 exhibited. His two principal contributions to science have been 

 published in the "Transactions of the City of London Entomological 

 Society." These are " Notes on the Effect of Climatic conditions 

 on Sexual Dimorphism," in the volume for 1908, and "Which is of 

 greater importance to the Rhopalocera — the upper or undersides of 

 the wings?" in that for 1909. Dr. Hodgson's exhibits of the 



