REPORT OF THE- COUNCIL, 1920. 



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THE Council in presenting the forty-ninth Annual Report 

 desire to state that the Society has had a successful year. 

 Its finances, owing to the efforts of the " unofficial 

 Committee " of last year and the assiduous work of the Treasurer, 

 are once more in a healthy condition, while the Membership has 

 increased from 162 to 184. Twenty-seven new Members have been 

 elected, only two have died (Messrs. W. West and G. B. Browne), 

 and five have resigned. In Mr. W. West, the oldest Member, 

 the Society's Curator from the inception of that office in 

 1872, we have sustained a great loss. Although he had reached the 

 age of 84, ho was active until the last, being present in his usual 

 health at the meeting of the Society, eight days before he passed 

 away. 



Mr. G. B. Browne had been a regular attendant until he moved 

 away from London on his retirement from business. 



A Special Exhibition of "Orders other than Lepidoptera " was 

 held on May 13th, with considerable success. The Annual 

 " Exhibition 6i Varieties and other Objects of Interest," was held 

 on November 25th, and constituted a " record," 143 members and 

 friends being present. Many series of remarkable varieties were 

 exhibited, among them being some 1277 specimens of the extra- 

 ordinary forms of Abra.rati (jrossnlariata shown by Lord Rothschild, 

 Mr. Sheldon's complete collection of the forms of Peronea ciistana 

 with many types, Mr. C. P. Pickett's recently taken forms of Agriade» 

 coridon, Mr. Bowman's recently obtained new forms of Cosymbia 

 2)endtilaria, with exhibits of many noteworthy individual aberrations. 



The Lantern has been used on several occasions during the past 

 year; Mr. Dennis has kindly officiated as Honorary Lanternist. 



Papers have been read before the Society by Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 F.R.S., G. E. Frisby, and S. Edwards, and Discussions introduced 

 by R. T. Bowman and H. J. Turner. 



After the decease of the Curator, Mr. W. West, your Council 

 appointed pro tem., Mr. S. R. Ashby, as Hon. Curator, and 



