REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1919. 



THE Council of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 Histoiy Society, in presenting the fort3'-eighth Annual 

 Eeport have pleasure in stating that fifteen new Members 

 have been elected during the year, but the Society has to deplore 

 the loss by death of six members, viz., Messrs. Ashdown, Wolley- 

 Dod, A. K. Inge, .J. H. Leslie, Sydney Webb and Lord Walsingham ; 

 and there have been four resignations, the net increase, therefore, 

 being five, leaving the present Membership at 3 Hon. Members, 

 6 Life Members, 21 Country, and 132 Ordinary Members, making 

 a total of 162. 



The strenuous years of war, now happily passed, could not but 

 have an adverse effect upon the finances of the Society, and in the 

 early months of the past year, the newly-elected Hon. Treasurer 

 reported that to fulfil the Society's obligations, not only had current 

 income been expended, but that the reserves had been drawn upon 

 almost to the extent of exhaustion, and that it would be impossible 

 to continue the Society's publications unless further resources were 

 forthcoming. The matter was taken up by some four of the older 

 members of the Society, who formed themselves into an unofficial 

 committee, and after fully considering the financial position decided 

 as a nucleus for an " Entrance Fee and Life Membership Eestora- 

 tion and Publication Fund," to subscribe among themselves a sum 

 of thirty pounds with a promise that if other members of the 

 Society subscribed a similar amount among them, the committee of 

 four would double the amount of their original subscription, making 

 a total of ninety pounds in all. They stipulated that out of this 

 sum the amount at credit of the Suspense Account (which 

 represents the accumulated receipts from Entrance Fees and Life 

 Membership Compositions), should be permanently invested in the 

 names of the Trustees, as set out in Bye-Law chapter 8, section 7. 

 On the matter being brought before the Council at its meeting on 

 October 9th, 1919, the proposal was readily accepted, and on it 

 being put before the general body of members, at a subsequent 



