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will have reason to remember his kindly and generous assist- 

 ance in their early attention to the collection and study of 

 the Lepidoptera. 



James Trimmer Williams was another of those who helped 

 to nurse the Society. In those early days he was always 

 present at our meetings, which he considerably enlivened by 

 his frequent recitals of humorous incidents of his collecting 

 expeditions. He sat upon the Council for a number of years, 

 and served as President in the year 1878; but probably few 

 among our present membership had the opportunity for 

 discovering how genial a companion he was. 



Turning from those we mourn to those that remain with 

 us : our members have been busy in various directions during 

 a poor season in adding to our knowledge, not only by their 

 exhibits and remarks in this room, but many of them have 

 also been active in contributing to Biological literature, the 

 Entomological journals especially containing communications 

 under names included in our roll of members. The papers 

 and lectures read and delivered at our meetings have been 

 valuable and interesting. I do not intend to go through the 

 list, for I dare say they have already been mentioned in the 

 Council's Report ; but I must particularly refer to quite an 

 exceptional one — the exceedingly interesting and instructive 

 lecture entitled " Notes on Comm.on Insects," by Mr. F. 

 Enock. I wish we could have more such evenings, when we 

 could invite our friends to be present with the certainty that 

 they would understand and be delighted by the lecture. Of 

 course, there are very few men v/ho could supply such 

 charming original portraits in the way of lantern slides, 

 combined with equally original notes of observations couched 

 in such simple and attractive language ; but we might try 

 our hands at training men of Mr. Enock's stamp. We have 

 plenty of material in the shape of acute observers, and if the 

 Society had an optical lantern of its own, and it was known 

 how easily simple diagrammatic lantern slides may be made, 

 members would be encouraged to make use of the lantern at 

 most of our meetings. In "Science Gossip" for July, 1894, 

 I called attention to the use the naturalist might make of the 

 photographic camera, and gave a few instances, concluding 

 with this paragraph : " Probably the majority of our readers 

 are members of local scientific societies, and many are in the 

 habit of reading notes or delivering lectures upon some phase 

 or other of our work. All such know the labour involved in 

 preparing diagrams on a scale sufficiently large to enable their 

 audience clearly to follow their remarks. The possessor of 



