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the opportunity of exhibiting material on a larger scale than 

 is convenient at the ordinary meetings of societies. 



I much regret that I have to chronicle the decease of no 

 less than live members of our society, besides other entomo- 

 logists. 



Francis C. Lemann, who joined the Entomological 

 Society in 1883, and this Society in 1898, died last spring. 

 He was a keen collector of European butterflies, though he 

 did not keep his specimens, but gave them away to friends, 

 and his early life fitted him to enjoy this pursuit. He was 

 at school in Russia, where he learnt French and German. 

 It was he who opened up the island of Corsica to British 

 entomologists. He lived at Plymouth, and those who knew 

 him describe him as a man of singularly fine character. 



John Adolphus Clark passed somewhat suddenly away on 

 December 16th, 190S, at the age of 66 years. He was 

 well versed in entomological lore, and commenced his 

 favourite study when very young, so that he was as well 

 acquainted with the entomologists of the past generation as 

 with those of the present. He was a Fellow of the Ento- 

 mological Society, and joined this Society in 1887 ; but it is 

 undoubtedly in his connection with the City of London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society, which lasted 

 over forty-nine years, that he will be remembered best. 

 The active interest which he took in the affairs of the " City" 

 " was of the greatest possible benefit to that Society." He 

 had other ties, too. In 1893 the members of the Hackney 

 Microscopical and Natural History Society presented him 

 with a valuable microscope as a token of their esteem. He 

 was not a very ready writer, but his paper on the variation 

 of Peronea cristana (" Ent. Rec," vol. xiii) will always be a 

 monument to his acumen and industry. 



William H. E. Thornthwaite died suddenly on June 27th 

 last, at the age of 58 years. He joined this Society in 1901, 

 and was with us at our outing on June 20th, just a week 

 before his decease. He was a keen collector of the lepi- 

 doptera, studying not only the larger species, but also the 

 micro-lepidoptera. His was a genial nature, and the hopes 

 we had of meeting him on many future occasions are now 

 unhappily disappointed. 



Edward Knight, who joined the Society in 1888, passed 

 away during the year. He does not appear to have made 

 any collection of any order, but was interested in general 

 natural history. 



Thomas F. Furnival, who joined our Society in 1903, 



