198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
owe much, and the South London Entomological and Natural History 
Society still more. 
First and foremost of these is Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., to whom the 
Society undoubtedly owes more than to any other individual member. 
Three times its President (1886, 1887, 1897), and for several years its 
Treasurer, he stands facile princeps of all those who have worked for 
the advancement of the Society, and as a keen lepidopterist will be 
known to all our readers. Second only to Mr. Adkin, in his solicitude 
for the Society’s welfare, is Mr. R. South, F.H.S., twice President 
(1885 and 1886), the editor of The /Hntomotogist, and responsible for 
much—yery much—of the systematic work that has been done on the 
lepidoptera of Japan. Next come Mr. S. Edwards, F.Z.S., F.L.8., 
Te Grose, IelMose, Odeo, anavel Ihe, Tele dg), Wbiuvaavere, JhnIBioisio5 ila) Hye 
Secretaries for many years past. No work that these two men can do 
for the Society is too great, and the generosity of Mr. Edwards is 
phenomenal. Besides the presentation of an excellent lantern to 
illustrate the lectures given and papers read, almost every really 
valuable work on natural history that is too expensive for the Society 
to purchase, finds its way to the Society’s bookshelves, thanks to Mr. 
Edwards, and in this he is ably seconded by Mr. N. F. Warne, one of 
the members of the well-known firm of book-publishers in Russell- 
street. The present President, Mr. W.J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., a first- 
class all-round naturalist, will be best known to our readers by his 
recent excellent work on British Dragonflies, whilst Major Ficklin, 
keen lepidopterist and excellent raconteur, and Mr. W. West, L.D.5., 
who adds microscopy to his love for entomology, represent the past 
presidents, having been in office in 1880 and 1884 respectively. Dr. 
T. A. Chapman needs no introduction to our readers s; an unlimited 
capacity for hard work, a scientific training that can be attained only 
by entomologists who follow medicine as a profession, an omnivorous 
reader, a logical reasoner, and a profound thinker, these are among the 
factors that have united in placing him in the very first rank of the 
entomologists of his time, and a giant among the pigmies that sur- 
round him. His refusal to occupy the presidential chair for the 
current year was a great disappointment to all the members, but we 
trust that ere long he will be prevailed upon to add his name to an 
honourable list. Dr. Fremlin, who has still to make the name in 
entomology that he has made in bacteriology, 1s the prospective Presi- 
dent for 1901. Mr. A. Cant, F.E.S., the prince of setters, Mr. J. H. 
Carpenter, F.E.S., keen on the elucidation of all details of the life- 
histories of our British butterflies, Mr. R. Ficklin, one of the original 
finders of Drepana harpagula (sicula) in Leigh Woods, and Mr. Wg 
Ashdown, an exceedingly keen coleopterist, will also be known to most, 
and if we have to regret the absence of Messrs. A. Harrison, 'T. W. 
Hall; W. West (Greenwich), H. A. Sauzé, H. Moore, A. M. Mont- 
gomery, KH. Step, and other active members of the Society from this 
photograph, we still trust that some future occasion will give us the 
chance of obtaining another contaiming at least some of those who 
have done so much for the Society. “By this means we hope that 
these entomologists may become something more than names to those 
who have not ‘yet had the pleasure of attending one of the meetings, 
and thus coming into personal contact with them. 
