18G [January, 



first Tuesday in March, 1874, at tho residence of the Secretary, G, Charlotte 

 Street, N. This Society does not appear to be so flourishing as the others, and 

 an earnest appeal is made by the Secretary for new Members. 



SoTJTH London Entomological Society. — Establislied under this title in March, 

 1872. Number of Members, 81. Subscription, six shillings per annum : 

 entrance fee, one shilling. Meets at the Assembly Eooms, 104, Westminster 

 Bridge Eoad, each alternate Thursday, at 8 p.m. Has held two Annual 

 Exhibitions. Possesses an extensive and increasing Library. We believe the 

 social position of the Members is higher than in the preceding Societies, but 

 the working-man element is represented. 



Kensington Entomological Society. — Established in January, 1873. 42 Mem- 

 bers. Subscription, five shillings per annum, with no entrance fee. Place 

 and time of meeting, the School Kouse, Allen Street, Kensington, every alternate 

 Friday, at 8 p.m. On the executive, are several well-known and prominent 

 entomologists. We understand that the working-man clement is at present 

 not represented, but there is no desire to exclude it. 



We Bave received copies of the printed rules of all of these 

 Societies. These agree in most essential points, and it would be 

 invidious for us to attempt any comparison of them. Any points 

 upon whicii they differ concern only the members themselves. 



The total number of individuals in London and its suburbs (in- 

 cluding about 70 Metropolitan Members of the Entomological Society 

 of London*), who, at tho present time, testify to their interest in 

 entomological pursuits by joining one or more of these Societies, is 

 probably about 400. A more minute analysis would probably show 

 that nine-tenths of the Members of the local Societies are interested 

 solely in British Lepidoptera, the remaining tenth being distributed 

 among the other orders, or principally attached to British Coleoptera. 



The working-man entomologist is no modern institution in this 

 country. A passion for collecting insects existed extensively among 

 tho Spitalfields silk- weavers of bygone days (see Crabbe) ; and, 

 although that occupation is virtually extinct in London, the taste 

 has remained, and is still strongly marked among the denizens of the 

 eastern districts of our great metropolis. 



The Editors will be obliged for information respecting entomolo- 

 gical Societies, or entomological sections of general Natural History 

 Societies, in other parts of the Kingdom, embodying the items above 

 noted with regard to the London Societies. AVhen sufficient statistics 

 are collected, they will form the subject of a second paper. 



1, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. : 

 December, 1873. 



• It WHS verbaps a rather .sliort-siglited p,)]iey that iiuluecd the founders of tbe chief British 

 entouiulogical Society to .adojit a local title. 



