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published several memoirs in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' 

 and other works (his views in which were keenly opposed by 

 Dr. J. E. Gray), he published two papers in the 'Entomological 

 Magazine' on the circulation of blood in the wings of the 

 Ephemeridce, and one on the scales of the wings of Lepidoptera 

 in the same work. 



We have to regret the death of William Arnold Lewis, F.L.S., 

 by a fearful accident on one of the Swiss mountains on the 6th 

 September last. His decided opposition to the constant altera- 

 tions in the nomenclature of Lepidopterous insects, made on the 

 doubtful and often improperly overstrained ground of priority, was 

 manifested by the publication of an extensive article on that 

 subject in the ' Transactions' of our Society. 



Mr. E. W. EoBiNSON, an excellent and well-known entomological 

 engraver, born on the 20th January, 1835, died on the 10th 

 August last. 



Henry Adams, a distinguished Conchologist, and one of the 

 members of our Society, also died during the past year. 



A genially written biographical notice of the late Henry 

 DouBLEDAY, by Mr. Dunning, with a small but characteristic 

 photographic likeness, appears in ' The Entomologist' for March, 

 1877. 



I regret that, in the Obituary in my last year's Address, 

 I omitted to record the death of Christian William Ludwig 

 Eduard Suffrian, the distinguished Coleopterist, which took 

 place on the 18th August, 1876, A biographical notice and a 

 complete list of his entomological writings, is given by Dr. C. A. 

 Dohrn, in the ' Stettiner Ent. Zeitung,' 1877, pp. 106—117. His 

 various memoirs on the European (Edemeridce and on the family 

 Cryptocephalida are indispensable to the student. 



Several large collections of insects have, during the past year, 

 been dispersed by auction by Messrs. Stevens, including those of 

 Mr. Edwin Brown and Mr. Trovey Blackmore (whose deaths I had 

 to record in my last year's Address), and to these may be added the 

 collection of Mr. Francis Walker. In the first of these sales some 

 high prices were obtained for rare insects, of which a notice is given 

 in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for April last (p. 257). 

 These prices, however, are by no means equal to those realized at 



