b. Honorary and Foreign Members. 



The number of Honorary Members remains tlie same 

 as at the last Anniversary. 



Among the Foreign Members the Council have to la- 

 ment the death of Professor Audouin of Paris, one of the 

 most distinguished entomologists of modern times, and 

 who had the rare talent of making his extensive scientific 

 knowledge practically useful to his country. His appli- 

 cations of entomological science to agriculture and the 

 arts, as displayed in his various memoirs on the Cantha- 

 rides, the Pyrale de la vigne, which for some years ra- 

 vaged the rich vineyards of Burgundy, t\\eTermites, which, 

 originally imported from India, were committing the most 

 alarming devastations among the wooden buildings of 

 Rochelle, and other destructive insects, have opened a 

 new field of inquiry in this branch of Natural History, 

 and conferred a lasting benefit on the husbandman, by 

 teaching how to destroy or prevent the increase of those 

 myriads of minute enemies which so frequently disappoint 

 his well-grounded hopes. It is such men — men, who, 

 like M. Audouin, have by their unpretending but valuable 

 labours made themselves the benefactors of their fellows 

 — whose preinature death becomes a public loss, and 

 whose memory should be held in reverence by every class 

 of society. 



c. Corresponding Members. 



The number of Corresponding Members at the present 

 moment amounts to 140. Among the deaths which have 

 occurred in this class of Members during the past season, 

 the Society has to regret those of Dr. Hancock of Guiana, 

 and M. Julien Desjardins, President of the Natural Hi- 

 story Society of the Mauritius, both of them donors to 

 the Museum and occasional contributors to the Pro- 

 ceedings. 



2. Finances. — a. Income and ExpendUtire. 



The income of the Society during the year 1841 

 amounted to £11,611 15*. Ik/., and the exj^enditure 

 to £10,931 17*. 5d,, leaving an absolute surplus of 

 £679 IS*. Qd. in favour of the income. In both these 

 sums it will be observed that there is a considerable fall- 

 ing off as compared with the previous year ; but the 

 Council entertain hopes that at least that portion of the 



