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 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Annual Meeting of 8th Feb., 1888, at King's College, Strand, W.C., 

 the President (the Rev. Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S.) in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 11th January last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 

 since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the Society given 

 to the donor. 



From 

 Slides of Chauliognathus Pennsylvania*, Doryphora decemlineata, 



Ectobia germanica (2), and larva of Dragon-fly Mr. II. W. Fuller. 



The Report of the Council was read (see p. 330). 

 The adoption of the Report having been moved by Mr. Oxley, and 

 seconded by Mr. Mclntire, was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Crisp said : While it has been usual for the President to be the 

 official exponent of the Society's feelings on the occasion of the death of 

 any prominent Fellow, I do not wholly regret that he has asked me to 

 say a few words on Dr. Millar's death, not because the President in any- 

 thing he might say on the subject would be formal or official only in any 

 sense of the words, but because I am glad to have the privilege of testi- 

 fying to our estimation .of our deceased friend. 



The good men that die are separated into somewhat different classes 

 by the impressions which their deaths make upon us. There are the 

 great and eminent men whoso deaths we recognize as leaving the world 

 distinctly the poorer thereby, and whom we cannot think of without 

 sorrow, both for ourselves and our neighbours. This feeling is in every 

 way genuine and sincere ; but if analysed, there is a greater or less trace 

 about it of what I may term a calculating nature ; the sorrow and the 

 regret is more particularly heightened by a sense of the material loss 

 which has been sustained. If it is, for instance, a great party leader, or 

 the prominent man of any other organization, we think of the results on 

 the future of the organization. Our late friend was not to be placed with 

 these, nor with that other class which includes those essentially good 

 men whom we know never to have harmed a human being by word, or 

 act, or thought, who have lived peaceable and peaceful lives, and the news 

 of whose deaths we receive with feelings of genuine sorrow and regret ; 

 and yet with this there is added a large admixture of what I may almost 

 call pity. To a different class to either of these belonged our late 

 friend. Our sorrow and grief at his loss is an unqualified and unmixed 

 feeling. We feel the loss, not so much for the world at large or for any 

 of our fellow-men, but solely for ourselves, with the fullest intensity of 

 purely personal feeling. What others have lost we do not stop or care 

 to consider ; we know that the world is the worse, but our sense of the 

 loss we mourn is above and beyond any idea of measuring its extent. I 

 do not wish to attempt to make any list of the qualities which 

 endeared Dr. Millar to so many of us. I should be afraid that any such 



