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ever rising generation of those seeking knowledge, and such we are 
glad to welcome. On the other hand, to old collectors, there is continu¬ 
ally something new appearing on ground that has been well trodden. 
This was clearly demonstrated at our last meeting, when Mr. Newman 
gave us his most interesting notes on Grapta c-albim, relating 
facts that have hitherto escaped the most observant. 
On the whole I think we may say that our Society has made 
satisfactory progress during the past year. The exhibits have been 
well maintained, and the papers read at our meetings have without 
exception proved both interesting and instructive, and on that heading 
it may be said that our programme for the coming winter in no way falls 
short of former years. 
It is with regret that we have to record the death of two of our 
members during the past year. Mr. Charles Oldham passed away at 
the ripe age of 83. At one time he was a frequent attendant at our 
meetings, but of recent years, owing to failing health, he was unable to 
be with us. He was always an active collector and frequently he was 
favoured with uncommonly good luck, as both fraxini and latlionia 
fell to his net in the Folkestone district. But perhaps the most 
interesting species in his cabinet was his series of potcitoria. This 
insect he bred for many consecutive years from larvte collected near 
Wisbech, and he succeeded in obtaining one of the most varied series 
I have ever seen. We also have to regret the loss of Mr. W. H. 
Thornthwaite, who had been a member of our Society for some 
considerable time. He died on the 27th June, aged 58. He was best 
known to our older members, as of recent years we have rarely seen 
him at our meetings. 
Outside our own Society there have been several losses, through 
death, of names familiar to many of us. Dr. H. G. Ivnaggs, who died 
January 16th, 1908, aged 74, was in my early days familiar to every 
collector, as also in more recent years was the name of J. C. Carrington, 
who died 5th March, aged 62. In the early eighties Mr. Carrington 
held an appointment as Naturalist at the Westminster Aquarium, 
and it was during his tenure of office there that he made himself 
best known and most popular. It was his custom to insert in the 
“Entomologist” an invitation to any entomologist to meet him in one 
of the galleries in the Aquarium once a month, the result being a most 
social and intellectual gathering, often numbering some thirty or forty 
guests. I remember the late Jenner Weir remarking that he had 
attended entomological gatherings in many different places, but he had 
never been to any which gave him more pleasure than those meetings 
at the Aquarium ; he added as one of the special advantages, that 
there were no minutes to be read and listened to. When these 
enjoyable meetings came to an end, somewhere about the year 1885, 
many frequenters of these gatherings betook themselves elsewhere, 
much to the advantage of some of the Entomological Societies. 
With regard to the work done by our members, we hope shortly to have 
some detailed account of the very considerable amount of work that our 
friend Rev. C. R. N. Burrows has been doing, in conjunction with Mr. 
Pierce, in investigating the genitalia of a large number of British 
Lepidoptera. We naturally await the result of their researches with 
considerable interest, as the possibility of overlooked species of some of 
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