THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



The time which has elapsed since our last Annual 

 Meeting, has, I am glad to say, not been altogether unproduc- 

 tive of some good results. Our Society was then in its infancy, 

 OTir means were scanty, our members were few, and our actual 

 working Entomologists were still fewer. We have now, at all 

 events, passed beyond the difficulties that were to have been 

 expected at the commencement of our Society, for this is now 

 firmly established, while the number of members has increased ; 

 and although the next Part of our Transactions may not 

 exhibit any increase in the number of contributors, yet we 

 know that the study of the Science has extended, and that the 

 interest excited, by increased acquaintance with the subject, is 

 rapidly bearing fruit. 



It is not unusual for the President of a Scientific Society 

 to review at each Annual Meeting, the Papers which have been 

 read at the Ordinary Meetings during the preceding year, and 

 also the progress that has been made generally in the Science 

 during that period. In conforming to the best of my ability 

 with this custom, it must be clearly understood, that I do not 

 pretend to be able to notice all the works published during the 

 past year on Entomological subjects ; and in fact it would 

 be impossible, for any one out of Europe, to procure even an 

 accurate list of them. 



Before, however, T proceed to notice the events of the ])ast 



