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Mr. Luff has gone from our midst, but his work remains a 

 lasting monument to his memory. Two Memoirs of deceased 

 will be published in the 1910 volume of Transactions, 

 one from the pen of his almost life-long friend, Mr. E. D. 

 Marquand, A.L.S., the other a reprint of an Apprecia- 

 tion which appeared in the July number of the Ento- 

 mologists' Record, and bears the initials F. E. L. 



As regards the Entomological Section, of which the late 

 Mr. Luff was Secretary, the Council have much pleasure in 

 announcing that the Rev. Frank E. Lowe, M.A., has very 

 kindly consented to succeed Mr. Luff in that capacity. 



Misfortunes never come singly, we are told, and so it has 

 been with our Society this year. In the early spring Mr. 

 George T. Derrick, another of the Founders and our highly 

 valued Hon. Secretary, was taken seriously ill, and an Acting 

 Honorary Secretary (Mr. Basil T. Rowswell) was named to 

 temporarily attend to the duties of the post. In September 

 our President received a letter from Mr. Derrick tendering 

 his resignation of the post of Secretary on account of 

 continued ill-health. In acceding to Mr. Derrick's request 

 the Council did so regretfully, and now wish to put on record 

 their high appreciation of his long and valued services to the 

 Society since its foundation in 1882, and during the last ten 

 years especially as its Hon. Secretary. Mr. Derrick was 

 elected Hon. Secretary on December 19th, 1900, in succession 

 to Mr. W. Sharp, our first Hon. Secretary, who that evening 

 was raised to the Presidential chair for the usual two years. 



In addition to the foregoing, two valued workers have 

 left the island — Mr. E. D. Marquand who, with his family, 

 has gone to reside at Paris, and Mr. Eric W. Sharp, who has 

 entered upon a course of studies in London. Energetic 

 workers are not easily replaced, and Mr. Sharp's particular 

 branch of research, Marine Zoology, has had few devotees in 

 the past although offering rich rewards to its disciples. 



Of Mr. Marquand's work, not for our Society alone, but 

 for the island and science generally, his well-known and 

 popular book, " Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel 

 Islands," published in 1901, is a living witness. As an all- 

 round naturalist, Mr. Marquand is a worker no Society can 

 afford to lose, and the Council deeply deplore his departure 

 from amongst us. Mr. Marquand's special line of study is 

 Botany as we all know, but his sincere devotion to Natural 

 History in all its branches, as revealed by the pages of our 

 Transactions, as also by his presence at the monthly meetings, 

 is too well known to need commenting upon here. We feel 



