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have been Messrs. Dennis, Noad-Clark, Goulton, LucaS, 

 Main, Step, and Tonge. It is extremely desirable that 

 entomologists should now be able to compare the ovum of 

 one species with that of another species, and matters would 

 be greatly aided if a series of microphotographs of ova were 

 easily procurable. I hope I shall not be guilty of betraying 

 a State secret if I say I have heard a whisper that Mr. Tonge 

 and Mr. Tutt are seriously considering the joint publication 

 of such photographs', with descriptions. I only hope it is true. 



Another feature which must not pass without mention is 

 the great number of the species of the genus Coleophora which 

 have been exhibited in one or more stages by our indefatigable 

 honorary secretary, Mr. Henry J. Turner. 



Before terminating my remarks on the special affairs of 

 this Society, it is my sad duty to have to record the passing 

 away from our midst of two entomologists, both members of 

 our Society. 



Robert McLachlan, who died on Ma}^ 23rd last, in his 

 67th year, was born near Ongar, in Essex. He seems very 

 early to have shown a leaning towards natural history studies, 

 and began, like so many of us, by turning his attention to the 

 butterflies. In order to increase his knowledge of their food- 

 plants, showing even at this early age the true naturalist he 

 was, he took up the study of botany. When eighteen years 

 old he went on a voyage to Australia and China, and brought 

 back a large collection of plants. Later he seems to have 

 made many journeys to the French and Swiss mountains, 

 and while on the Continent made the acquaintance of several 

 men of entomological eminence ; thus his mind was early 

 widened and freed from that insular prejudice which is so 

 apt to hinder the development of a stay-at-home Briton. 

 His first contribution of any length on the Trichoptera was, 

 I believe, published in the " Entomologists' Annual" for 1861. 

 Later, in the "Transactions of the Entomological Society," 

 he wrote a monograph of the British Caddisflies, one of the 

 British Neuroptera-Planipennia, and a catalogue of the 

 British Neuroptera. In the " Ent. Mo. Mag." he published 

 a monograph of the British Procidae. His chief work, how- 

 ever, was his " Monographic Revision and Synopsis of the 

 Trichoptera of the European Fauna," with a supplement. 

 This work, containing over 600 pages and some 2000 figures 

 of structural details from his own drawings, appeared in 

 nine parts during the decade 1874-1884. Of his works, 

 these are perhaps the most useful to the student of the 

 British Neuroptera, but he contributed articles and Reports 



