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August 5, 1885. 



J. Jenner Weie, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Vice-President, in the cliair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Thomas WilHam Hall, Esq. (3, New Inn, Strand, W.C.), was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. J. W. Dunning announced that the Society's application for a 

 Royal Charter of Incorporation had been successful. He held in his hand the 

 Charter which had been granted by Her Most Gracious Majesty, and begged 

 leave to present it, and formally place it in the custody of the Society. 



The document was then read by the Secretary, and was as follows: — 



ViCtOViHf by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, TO ALL TO 

 WHOM these presents shall come Greeting : 



Whereas Joseph William Dunning, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County 

 of Middlesex, Barrister-at-Law, Esquire, Master of Arts, formerly Fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society and of the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London, has by his 

 Petition humbly represented unto US, That in the year 1833 certain of 

 our loyal subjects formed themselves into a Society for the Improvement 

 and Diffusion of Entomological Science, and subscribed and expended 

 considerable sums of money for such purposes, and have collected and 

 become possessed of a valuable library and other property, and have been 

 and continue to be actively employed in promoting the objects for which 

 the said Society was founded, especially by the publication of Volumes of 

 Transactions composed of Original Memoirs read before the Society. And 

 WHEREAS the said Petitioner, believing that the well-being and usefulness 

 of the said Society would be most materially promoted by obtaining a 

 Charter of Incorporation, hath tlicrefore, on behalf of himself and the other 

 Members of the said Society, most humbly prayed that WE would be 

 pleased to grant a Royal Charter for incorporating into a Society the 

 several persons who have already become Fellows, or who may at any time 

 hereafter become Fellows thereof, subject to such Regulations and 

 Restrictions as to US may seem good and expedient. NOW KNOW YE 

 that WE, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable, and of 

 promoting the improvement and diffusion of Science in all its branches, 

 have of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge and mere Motion, given 



