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S T A T E D MEETING, December 0. 

 President Newman in the Cluiir. 

 Eifteeu members present. 



REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 



'J'he report uf tlie Recording Secretary was read as follows :— 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY 



FOR 1801. 



The Recording Secretary in presenting his Report of the operations of 

 the Society during the past year, takes this opportunity to congratulate 

 the members upon its present prosperous condition and upon the bright 

 prospects which loom up in the future. 



The present Report will necessarily be brief because of the plan adojtted 

 during the past year, of publishing the Proceedings of the Society at short 

 intervals. By referring to its pages abundant information can be obtained 

 concerning the transactions of the Society, and the rapid progiess that has 

 been made within the short space of one year. 



At all times since the organization of the Society, its members have 

 been much gratified at the success that has atteiuled their eftbits. and it 

 may be confidently asserted that what was but recently looked upon as an 

 experiment, may now be considered an established fact. 



The contributions to the Cabinet during the past year have been both 

 numeroits and valuable; the following particulars have been extracted from 

 the Reports of the Committees in charge of the various departments which 

 will show the present prosperous condition of the Cabinet :- 



In Coleoptera there is an increase of 520 species, 8,885 specimens dur- 

 ing the past year, making a total of 2,550 species, 20,210 specimens now 

 in the collection. The principal donors are Dr. T. B. Wilson, Henry Ulke, 

 John Pearsall, Dr. G. H. Horn, J. H. B. Bland, William Evett and J. D. 

 Wingate. The collection contains a few types of new species described by 

 Dr. Horn, and also several unique specimens still undescribed. 



The want of an Elementary work on the l^epidoptera of North America, 

 has done much to decrease the interest in this department, and the diffi- 

 culty of procuring correct names for our species has also been the means of 

 discouraging many in collecting, consequently the increase in the collection 

 during the past year has been small. The collection now contains 519 

 species. 8,414 specimens an increase of 1!*S species, 2,l(i!l s|ieciniens dur- 

 thc past year. 



