JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. IxXXvil 



Anniversary Meeting, January 25th, 1836. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the By-laws, the four following gentlemen were 

 removed from the Council : 



J. G. Children, Esq. William Christy, jun., Esq. 



W. B. Spence, Esq. William Longman, Esq. 



and the four following gentlemen elected into the Council in their 

 stead : 



W. W. Saunders, Esq. A. Ingpen, Esq. 



William Sells, Esq. Charles M. Curtis, Esq. 



And the following gentlemen were elected as Officers for the fol- 

 lowing year : 



President The Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Treasurer William Yarrell, Esq. 



Secretai-y J. O. Westwood. 



Curators Messrs. Shuckard and Westwood. 



Mr. Yarrell, on behalf of the Auditors who had examined and 

 signed the Treasurer's Accounts, read a favourable Report of the 

 Accounts and Finances of the Society, which was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope then read an Address upon the state of the 

 Society, its progress and prospects*. 



The Secretary read a Minute of Council, dated the 22nd inst., 

 whereby it was resolved to present to Mr. Le Keux a copy of the 

 Transactions of the Society, handsomely bound, in testimony of 

 their approval of his Notes upon the Turnip-fly, and as a mark of 

 their sense of the value of his discovery of the preparatory state of 

 that insect. 



The Secretary also read a Minute of Council, dated the 22nd inst., 

 whereby it was resolved that, in pursuance of a recommendation 

 made at the general meeting of the Society, held on the 6th July 

 last, the subject of the Prize Essays for the ensuing year should be 

 the Coccus of the Pine Apple, the Prize Essays to be accompanied 

 by testimonials of the success of the remedies proposed by the re- 

 spective writers thereof. 



* This Address has been since published for distribution amonp,st the members 

 by Mr. Hope. Copies of it may be had at the Society's Rooms, including an Abs- 

 tract of the Treasurer's Accounts. 



