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also making arrangements for the special encouragement of the 

 study of economic entomology. To these and similar institutions 

 it is the duty of science, in the interest of mankind, to giv^ its un- 

 qualified support, to divest itself of all preconceived theories and 

 prejudices, to avoid those polemical discussions which appear to have 

 gone beyond the security they give for the exhibition of facts in all 

 the various points of view they may bear, but impartially to study 

 every detail connected with these scourges, which have so much 

 increased during the present century, fostered, perhaps, by the 

 advance of civiHzation and high cultivation. 



The President read a letter from Mr. J. J. Bennett, dated Mares- 

 field, AprU 18th, 1872, requesting that, as he finds it impossible, 

 while residing at so great a distance from London, to attend the 

 Meetings, he might be allowed to resign his position as a Member of 

 Council and a Vice-President ; adding that, after so many years of 

 active connexion with the Society's affairs, it cost him no little pain 

 to sever himself entirely from its business ; but that (being desirous of 

 spending the remainder of his days in absolute retirement), he felt 

 it to be his duty to do so, and could no longer defer performing it. . 



The Secretary reported that the following Members had died, or 

 their deaths been ascertained, since the last Anniversary : — 



Fellows. 



Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart. 

 Iltyd Nicholl, Esq. 

 William Osborn, Esq. 

 Berthold Seemann, Ph.D. 

 J. D. C. Sowerby, Esq. 

 Thomas Hawkes Tanner, M.D. 



Robert Armstrong, M.D. 

 WiUiam Baird, M.D. 

 James Charles Dale, Esq. 

 George Robert Gray, Esq. 

 Rev. William Hincks. 

 Charles Home, Esq. 

 Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. 



Foreign Member. 

 Hugo von Mohl, M.D. 



Associates. 

 WiUiam Baxter. | Edward Jenner. 



The Secretary also announced that thirty-two Follows and two 

 Foreign Members had been elected since the last Anniversary, 



At the Election which subsequently took place, George Bentham, 

 Esq., was re-elected President ; William Wilson Saunders, Esq., 

 Treasurer ; and Frederick Currey, Esq., and H. T. Stain ton, Esq., 

 Secretaries. The following five Fellows were elected into the 



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