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that has taken place in all branches of scientific knowledge 

 and their application to the improvement of the condition of 

 your subjects. 



"We fervently pray that the years to come of your 

 Majesty's sway may be no less blessed, and that the in- 

 telligence and morality of your subjects may be continually 

 strengthened." 



Mr. Goss further stated that the Address, the copy of 

 which he had just read from the Minute-book of the Council 

 Meetings, was in due course forwarded by Mr. Fowler to the 

 Home Secretary, who acknowledged its receipt in a letter, of 

 which the following is a copy : — 



" Whitehall, 28th July, 1887. 

 " Sir, — I have had the honor to lay before The Queen 

 the loyal and dutiful Address of the Entomological Society 

 on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the Fiftieth Year of 

 Her Keign ; And I have to inform you that Her Majesty was 

 pleased to receive the same very graciously. 



" I have the honor to be, Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



" Henry Matthews. 

 " The Kev. W. W. Fowler, 

 " The School -House, Lincoln." 



Flection of a Fellow. 

 Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford, of Woodstock Road, Oxford, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dx. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a living larva of Myrmeleon 

 europcBus, which he had taken at Fontainebleau on the 6th of 

 August last. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred specimens of both 

 sexes of Zelleria hepariella, Stn., and also, on behalf of Mr. 

 C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty varieties of Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata selected from the specimens bred during the year 

 1886 from 4000 larva obtained from eggs laid by selected 

 varieties, the results of crossing and interbreeding for more 



