[March, 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, Januarij 20th, 1904. The 

 70th Annual Meeting, Professor E. B Poulton, D.Sc., F.R.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



After an abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a large balance in the 

 Society's favour, had been read by one of the auditors, Mr. Herbert Goss, one of the 

 Secretaries, read the Report of the Council. It was then announced that the 

 following had been elected OfBcers and Council for the Session 1904-1905 : — Presi- 

 dent, Prof. Edward B. Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, 

 F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, P.L.S., and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of Council, 

 Lieut-Colonel Charles Bingham, F.Z.S. , Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, F.Z.S., Arthur 

 John Chitty, M.A., James Edward Collin, Dr. Frederick A. Dixey, M.A., Hamilton 

 H. C. J. Druce, F.Z.S., "William John Lucas, B. A., the Rev. Francis D. Morice, M.A , 

 the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe.M.A., F.L.S., and Colonel John W. Yerbury,R.A.,F.Z.S. 



The President referred to the loss sustained by the Society, in common with 

 other communities for the advancement of science and thought, in the death of 

 Mr. Herbert Spencer. He then spoke of the losses Entomology had sustained 

 during the past Session by the deaths of Mr. F. Bates, Mr. W. D. Crotch, M.A., 

 Mr. E. R. Dale, Herr Johannes Faust, Prof. A. Radcliffe Grote, the Rev. J. Hocking- 

 Hocking, M.A., the Rev. T. A. Marshall, M.A., Mr. P. Brookes Mason, the Rev. 

 Canon Bernard Smith, Mr. J. S. Stevens, and Mr. S. J. Wilkinson. He then 

 delivered an Address on the subject of " What is a Species ? " What is there to fill 

 the vacancy left by the disappearance of the Linnean conception, founded on " special 

 creation ? " In many respects it would be advantageous to abandon the word, or to 

 use it solely with its original logical meaning of " kind " or, as zoologists would say, 

 "form." This view was, however, regarded as a " counsel of perfection," impossible 

 of attainment ; and the attempt was made to show that the conception of a naturally 

 and freely interbreeding (or syngamic) community lies behind the usual definitions ; 

 and that the barrier between species is not sterility, but simply cessation of inter- 

 breeding (or asyngamy). A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was 

 proposed by Dr. Dixey, seconded by Canon Fowler, and carried. Mr. Yerrall pro- 

 posed a vote of thanks to the other ofiieers, this was seconded by Mr. Chitty and 

 carried. Professor Poulton, Mr. Goss, and Mr. Rowland-Brown replied. — H. Goss, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



February 3rd. — The President in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Dr. Thomas Algernon Chap- 

 man, M.D., F.Z.S., Dr. Frederick Augustus Dixey, M.A., M.D.,and the Rev. Francis 

 David Morice, M.A., as Yice-Presidents for the Session 1904 — 1905. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited two specimens of Ptinus tectus, Boisd., taken by 

 him in a granary in Holborn in the winter of 1892 —93 ; also a complete series of 

 the red Apions to compare with A. sanguineum from the late Frederick Smith's 

 collection. Mr. O. E. Janson, specimens of Papilio tvelskei, Ribbe, and Troides 

 meridionalis, Rothschild, recently taken by Mr. A. S. Meek near the Aroa River in 

 the interior of British New Guinea. Mr. E. C. Eedwell, the following species of 



