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asked to continue their donations ; but that, on the other 

 hand, each and every member should do his best towards 

 the fulfilment of the aspirations of the Society we love, and 

 aid in handing down to future generations of entomologists 

 a standard of scientific work rarely attained by a local 

 society, and perhaps excelled by none. 



Only one other duty remains for me to perform. I desire 

 to express my hearty thanks to each and every member who 

 has attended our meetings, and borne with all my many 

 shortcomings. I wish to thank also the members of the 

 Council who have helped to make this year one of the most 

 successful in the annals of this Society — to Mr. Lucas, Mr. 

 Harrison, and Mr. Clarke more especialh^, for their work in 

 connection with the lantern illustrations that have made 

 many of our meetings so enjoyable. What the Society has in 

 its Treasurer, Secretaries, Curator, and Librarian you know 

 perhaps as well as I — hard-working men whose very lives seem 

 to depend on making the Society as successful as possible ; 

 and if I have left my thanks to Mr. Adkin last, it is only 

 because I do not know how to sufficiently thank him for 

 taking on my duties when I was in indifferent health. 



And now I have to hand over the chair to my successor, 

 a pleasant duty not untinged with a certain amount of selfish 

 regret. In Mr. Harrison you have one of the few Presidents 

 not primarily an entomologist, — a quiet, unassuming, retiring 

 gentleman, possibly more or less unknown to many members, 

 yet a man full of reserve force, a great reader and student, a 

 man of special attainments in more than one branch of 

 science, a man who will keep the Society at its present high 

 level, and who, I venture to prophesy, will be handed down 

 to posterity as one of the very best Presidents who ever 

 filled the chair — 



A man of parts, of mettle tried, 

 A man who will — whate'er betide. 



J. W. TUTT. 



