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read the Eeport of the Council, from which it appeared that nine 

 meetings had been held duriog the past year, at which valuable papers 

 had been read, and many interesting exhibits shown. The following 

 officers were appointed for the ensuing year : — President, Mr. S. J. 

 Capper. Vice-President, Eev. F. Freeman. Hon. Secretary, Mr. F. 

 N. Pierce. Hon. Treasurer and Librarian, Mr. H. Locke. The 

 following gentlemen were elected on the Council: — Mr. W. E. Sharp, 

 Dr. J. W. ElHs, Messrs. W. Webster, B. H. Crabtree, and Douglas 

 Walker. The President, in his Annual Address, said : — 



"On the 21st of next month the Lancashire and Cheshire Ento- 

 mological Society will have attained its twentieth anniversary. The 

 first meeting was held at my house, Huyton Park ; it then numbered 

 only eleven members, viz. Messrs. N. Cooke, Mountfield, N. Greening, 

 T. J. Moore, Birchall, Carrington, Koxburg, Whitby, Johnson, Cross, 

 and myself. Twenty years in the retrospect is a long period, but it 

 has passed so quickly that I find it difficult to realise so long a time 

 has elapsed since that happy occasion. The meeting at my house had 

 been anticipated by one at Mr. Nicholas Cooke's, Wallasey, Cheshire, 

 a few weeks previously, at which, however, I was not present, when 

 the formation of such a Society was determined upon, and the office- 

 bearers proposed, and Mr. Cooke was requested to ask me to become 

 President. When Mr. Cooke informed me of all this I was much 

 surprised, but at nothnig more so than at my being selected to occupy 

 such an honourable position. I told Mr. Cooke that he was the right 

 man for that office, but at his persuasion I agreed to accept it for one 

 year, but only conditionally, that he undertook to do so the next. 

 Strange to say, circumstances happened to prevent this, and I find 

 myself, after nineteen years, still your President. On similar occasions 

 I have urged upon you the desirability of choosing some other member 

 than myself to preside over you, and three years ago stated that, 

 having given so many inaugural addresses, I felt myself exhausted for 

 new material, so that if you persisted in electing me I must at any rate 

 be reheved from this duty. Two years ago our then Vice-President, 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp, khidly gave the address. Those present when he 

 did so, or those who have perused it in its printed form [Entom. xxvii. 

 81] , will remember the originality and the new lines of thought it 

 evoked, — how, in his introductory remarks, he stated that 'Entomology 

 is at best but a partial science, and is only a small fragment of the 

 great science of Biology, and yet Entomology and Entomologists 

 existed before ever Biology, under that name, was invented.' 



"Let us very briefly glance over the progress made by the Society, 

 the kind of work which has occupied its attention, and at a few of the 

 many lectures given and papers read at its meetings during these 

 nineteen years of its history. The next meeting after the one at my 

 house was held March 20th, 1877, in the room we now occupy, the 

 use of which was kindly granted us by the Museum Committee. The 

 number of new members joining us was considerable, so much so that 

 I find no less than fifty- seven members recorded in the first printed 

 Annual Eeport for the session 1881. It is interesting to state that no 

 fewer than sixteen of these are still members, viz. E. Brown, H. Capper, 

 J. E. L. Dixon, Dr. Ellis, E. D. Jones, W. C. Gardner, J. T. Green, 

 W. Johnson, S. L. Mosley, F. N. Pierce, T. Eoxburg, W. E. Sharp, 



