THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
‘Vou. LIV.] HUN Ady, 1991. [No. 692 
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THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 
An ANNOUNCEMENT AND AN APPEAL. 
Tur New Year inaugurates an epoch in the annals ofthe 
Entomological Society of London, the oldest continuous-lived 
Society devoted to entomology in the world except the ‘sister 
Society of France, which pre-dates it by a year only, having 
been founded in 1833. In 1921, in February or March, our 
Society will hold its first meeting in premises of its own at 
41, Queen’s Gate, close to the Natural History Museum, and 
the long connection with the rooms of the Medical Society in 
Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, comes to an end. These 
rooms the Sbdciety has occupied for its meetings and for its 
library since November 3rd, 1875. Prior to that date the 
meetings had been held for some considerable time in the 
rooms of the Linnean Society at Burlington House, the library 
being accommodated in Bedford Row—an extremely inconvenient 
arrangement, as the then President, Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, 
C.M.G., pointed out when congratulating the members of the 
Society upon the change of venue. Already the library had 
become too large for the space allotted, while the facilities offered 
those using it were hopelessly inadequate. In this respect history 
repeats itself. The library has far outgrown the shelves at dis- 
posal in Chandos Street, while so great has been the increase of 
Fellowship that the meeting-room of late years, and even during 
the war period, has been insufficient to seat the augmented 
number of those attending. But hitherto, as stated, the Society 
has been no more than a tenant at will of the Medical Society, 
as previously of the Linnean. It will now be master in its own 
house, and a very fine house into the bargain. The occupation of 
the Chandos Street premises, moreover, has witnessed other and 
remarkable changes alike in the constitution of the Society and 
the bye-laws governing its activities. In 1885 the President, Mr. 
. J. W. Dunning, a benefactor in many ways, appealed for the 
incorporation of the Society, and in July of that year a Charter 
- was granted by warrant under the Queen’s Sign Manual, and 
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in 1913 His Majesty King George became patron. Meanwhile, 
from the beginning of the present century, the war notwith- 
standing, the roll of Fellows has steadily enlarged, until it is 
ENTOM.— JANUARY, 1921. B 
