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ANNUAL MEETING. 



January 16tb, 1901, 



Mr. George H. Verrall, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E,. W. Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read the Treasurer's 

 Balance Sheet, showing a balance in the Society's favour of 

 £160 16s. Ud. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, one of the Secretaries, read the 

 following : — 



Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1900-1 one Honorary Fellow, Baron M. 

 E. de Selys-Longchamps, has died, and two Honorary Fellows, 

 Professor Christopher Avirivillius of Stockholm, and Professor 

 Freidrich Moritz Brauer of Vienna have been elected. Eight 

 Oi-dinary Fellows have died : the Eight Hon. Lord Dormer, 

 Mr. W. G. Blatch, Major George Cockle, M.A., B. Mus., Mr. 

 P. Crowley, Mr. T. G. Rylands, Mr. W. H. Lowe, M.D., Mr. 

 J. H. Leech, B.A., and Mr. W. Blundell Spence ; three 

 Ordinary Fellows have resigned, twenty-nine have been elected, 

 and one restored to the list. 



The number of Fellows elected is considerably above the 

 average, and it is to be hoped that the efforts made by exist- 

 ing Fellows of the Society to bring fresh blood into it will 

 be maintained. At present the Society consists of eleven 

 Honorary Members, fifty-five Life and three hundred and 

 seventy-two Ordinary Fellows — a total of 438, which repre- 

 sents a membership greater than in any previous year before 

 or since the Society's incorporation. 



Ovir Transactions for the year form a volume of 697 pages, 

 containing thirteen Memoirs contributed by the following 

 authors : — Mr. G. J. Arrow, Mr. W. H. Ashmead, Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, Mr. W. L. Distant (2 papers), Mr. H. J. Elwes, 

 Mr. C. J. (Jahan, Sir George Hampson, Bart., Mr. M. Jacoby, 

 the late Mr. J. 11. Leech (2 papers), Mr. K. J. Morton, and 

 Mr. A. Quail. 



Of these thirteen papers three relate to Coleoptera, two to 

 Hemiptera, one to Hymenoptera, six to Lepidoptera, and one 

 to Neuroptera. 



