REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1922. 



THE Council, in presenting the fifty-first Annual Report, is 

 pleased to be able to state that the Society is in a more 

 satisfactory condition than it has been for many years, as 

 the membership is now 211, made up as follows : — 184 Full Mem- 

 bers, 17 Country, 4 Honorary, and 6 Life. The Council regrets to 

 say that there have been five deaths. Lachlan Gibb, A. Home, H, 

 Rowland-Brown, V. R. Perkins, and G. Storey. 



Lachlan Gibb joined the Society in 1884, and although his 

 frequent visits to Montreal on account of business made his attend- 

 ance somewhat irregular, he had always taken a very keen interest 

 in the Society's work, and was a regular contributor to the publica- 

 tion fund. In his will he bequeathed £200 to the funds of the Society. 



A. Home, who joined the Society in 1889, died last September, 

 ased 60; living in Aberdeenshire prevented him from attending our 

 meetings. He had a collection remarkable for the length of the 

 series of varieties of individual species of British Lepidoptera. 



H. Rowland-Brown, who joined the Society in 1904, died after a 

 long illness from heart complaint, much missed by all who knew him ; 

 he was Secretary of the Entomological Society of London for eleven 

 years; his knowledge of European Rhopalocera was great, and he 

 wrote a book on them illustrated with plates. 



V. R. Perkins joined the Society in 1880; living for many years 

 in Gloucestershire prevented him from attending the meetings, but 

 while he was resident in London he was very regular in attendance, 

 and a Past President. 



Gilbert Storey joined in 1913, going shortly after to Cairo, to the 

 Dept. of Agriculture as Economic Entomologist. 



The Council have to regret the resignations of Messrs. C. S. 

 Baker, Major P. A. Cardew, W. P. Colhuun, C. N. Freeman, E. M. 

 Gibb, A. Holding, and L. Robinson. 



This year being the 50th anniversary of the Society, your Council 

 decided that the fact should be celebrated by the election of Mr. G. 

 C. Champion, A.L.S., F.E.S., one of the founders of the Society in 

 1872, as an Honorary Member, and also by a Pocket-box Exhibition 

 and supper, which was held on October 19th, at the Holborn 

 Restaurant, In the absence of the President and of Mr. Step, the 

 oldest member of the Society, who was away on business, Mr. R, 



