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age is towards specialisation not only in Entomology, but 

 in every department of either science, art, or commerce. 

 The best work is undoubtedly being done by specialists, and 

 it is to specialists we must look for new discoveries and the 

 advancement of science in general. 



I have often wondered if some combination of the many 

 Natural History Societies of the Metropolis could be ar- 

 ranged. Union is strength all the world over. This is 

 neither the occasion nor the time to go into any details in 

 reference to such a matter, but the idea of a large central 

 society, with a local habitation and name — a library and 

 collections, second to none, always open for inspection, 

 study, and reference — a meeting-place for biologists gene- 

 rally—does open up a vista ; albeit it is but a castle in the 

 air, pleasant in the extreme. 



We have lost by death during the past year four members. 

 The latest in date and most regrettable is that of our Pre- 

 sident for 1891, Mr. W. H. Tugwell. The late Mr. W. H. 

 Tugwell was elected a member of this Society in the year 1873. 

 In him we lose another of the links connecting the past 

 generation of entomologists with the present. His loss will 

 be felt by a large circle of friends throughout the kingdom. 

 For more than forty years Mr. Tugwell had been a keen 

 collector of British Lepidoptera. With the exception of the 

 last year or two, during which time he had been more or 

 less incapacitated by ill-health, he had for many years been 

 a most active and prominent member of our Society. Mr. 

 Tugwell was born at Reigate on the 31st February, 1831, 

 and died at his own residence at Greenwich on the 20th 

 September, 1895, at the age of sixty-four, after a long illness 

 from an obscure spinal disease. Notwithstanding this 

 serious illness, his interest in the Society repeatedly mani- 

 fested itself in the exhibition of any entomological speci- 

 mens which he thought would interest his fellow members, 

 and as late as October of this year we find him contributing 

 notes on the early stages of the larva; of StauropiLS fagi to the 

 " Entomologist." Having selected as a profession that of a 

 pharmaceutical chemist, he removed to London, and for 

 many years lived in the heart of the City, from whence he 

 removed to Greenwich, where he spent the remainder of 

 his days. Mr. Tugwell learnt a good deal of his woodcraft 

 at Tilgate Forest (with the full capacities of which he was 

 well conversant) under Tester, and was facile princeps as a 

 collector of those good things which were then first dis- 

 covered, and are still to be found in that favoured district. 



