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The only new feature connected with our publications is to be found 

 in Plate VIII., illustrating M. Ch. Oberthiir's description of new butter- 

 flies from the Islands of Sangir. In this plate, executed by Messrs. West, 

 Newman & Co., the old and expensive method of hand-colouring has been 

 replaced by chromo-lithography, with a result that is highly satisfactory, 

 both as regards accuracy and reduced cost. 



Our Library has received the usual number of periodicals, and Members 

 still continue to make increasing use of the books. Among special donations 

 the Society is indebted to Mr. J. W. Dunning for Doubleday and Hewitson's 

 ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera' and Buckton's Monograph on the Aphides ; 

 to Mr. W. H. Edwards for the first volume of his ' Butterflies of North 

 America'; and to Sir John Lubbock for the Rev. Hamlet Clark's 'Catalogue 

 of Halticidae,' Woodward's ' Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea,' Spence 

 Bates's 'Catalogue of Amphipodous Crustacea in the British Museum,' and 

 many other works. The Society is likewise indebted to the executors of the 

 late Mr. W. C. Hewitson for a copy of the Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera 

 bequeathed by him to the British Museum. 



Although the attendance-book shows a small falling ofi" in the number 

 of members and visitors present at the meetings of the past year as com- 

 pared with the attendances during 1878, the Council is of opinion that the 

 interest of the meetings held during 1879 has been as well sustained as in 

 former years. 



11, Chandos Street, Caveyidish Square, W. 

 January 21st, 18S0. 



Mr. J. W. Slater and Mr. T. R. Billups having been nominated 

 Scrutineers, the following Members of Council were elected for 1880 : — 

 Henry Walter Bates, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; William Cole ; William L. Distant, 

 Direct. Anthrop. Inst.; Joseph W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S.; F. Du Cane 

 Godman, M.A., F.L.S. ; Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 

 M.P., F.R.S.,&c.; Raphael Meldola,F.R.A.S.,F.C.S.; Osbert Salvin,M.A.,- 

 F.R.S.; Edward Saunders, F.L.S.; H. T. Stainton, F.R.S.; Samuel 

 Stevens, F.L.S. ; J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



The following officers were subsequently elected : — President, Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., (tc. ; Treasurer, Edward Saunders ; Librarian, Ferdinand 

 Grut ; Secretaries, Raphael Meldola and Wm. L. Distant. 



The Chairman delivered an Address. 



Mr. M'Lachlan proposed and Mr. H. W. Bates seconded that a vote of 

 thanks should be given to Mr. Dunning for his Address, and that the latter 

 should be printed. The motion was put to the meeting and carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe proposed that a special vote of thanks should be 

 given to Mr. Jenner Weir, the retiring Treasurer, for his services to the 



