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Entomological Society of London.— /a mmry 21, 1891, f/ig ^%th 

 Annual Meeting. — I'he Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts was 

 read by Mr. Herbert Druce, one of the Auditors, and the Report of 

 the Council was read by Mr. H. Goss. It appeared therefrom that the 

 Society had lost, during the year, five Fellows by death, and had elected 

 twenty-seven new Fellows ; that the volume of Transactions for the year 

 extended to nearly 700 pages, and comprised twenty memoirs, contributed 

 by seventeen authors, and illustrated by twenty-one plates. It was then 

 announced that the following gentlemen had been elected as Officers 

 and Council for 1891 : President, Mr. Frederick Du Cane Godman, 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert M'Lachlan, F.R.S; Secretaries, 

 Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A,, F.L.S. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; and as other Members of the 

 Council, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S., Dr. 

 David Sharp, F.R.S., Mr. Richard South, Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., Col. 

 Charles Swinhoe, F.L.S., Mr. George H. Verrall, and the Right Hon. 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S. It was also announced that the new 

 President had appointed Lord Walsingham, Prof. Meldola, and Dr. 

 David Sharp Vice-Presidents for the session 1891-1892. Lord \Valsing- 

 ham, the retiring President, then delivered an Address. After alluding to 

 some of the more important Entomological publications of the past 

 year, and making special mention of those of Edwards and Scudder in 

 America, of Romanhoff in Russia, of the Oberthiirs in France, and of 

 Godman and Salvin in England, the President referred to Mr. Moore's 

 courageous undertaking in commencing his Lepidoptera Indica, on the 

 lines adopted in his Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Attention was then called 

 to the unusual development during the past year of the study of those 

 problems which have been the object of the researches of Darwin, 

 Wallace, Weismann, Meldola, Poulton, and others, and to the special 

 and increasing literature of the subject. In this connection allusion 

 was made to Mr. Tutt's Entomologisf s Record and Journal of Variation., 

 to Mr. Poulton's valuable book, On the meaning and use of the Colours of 

 Animals, and to the interesting and important papers and experiments 

 of Mr. F. Merrifield on the subject of the variation in Lepidoptera 

 caused by differences of temperature. After alluding to the Inter- 

 national Zoological Congress held at Paris during the past year, and to 

 the rules of nomenclature, which had been once more reviewed and 

 revised, the President concluded by referring to the losses by death 

 during the year of several Fellows of the Society and other Entomolo- 

 gists, special mention being made of Mr. E. T. Atkinson, Mr. J. S. 

 Baly, Mons. I'Abbe de Marseul, Mr. Owen Wilson, Mons. Lucien 

 Buquet, Mons. Eugene Desmarest, Prof. Heinrich Frey, Dr. R. C. R. 

 Jordan, Mr. W. S. Dallas, Dr. L. W. Schaufuss, Dr. Hermann Dewitz, 

 Mons. Louis Reiche, and Herr Peter Maassen. A vote of thanks to 

 the President for his services during the year and for his Address was 

 proposed by Dr. D. Sharp, seconded by Mr. M'Lachlan, and carried. 

 Mr. M'Lachlan then proposed a vote of thanks to the other Officers of 

 the Society, which was seconded by Mr. S. Stevens, and carried. Lord 

 Walsingham, Mr. Goss, and Mr, Grut replied. 



