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meetings, by throwing open our doors to all entomologists indiscriminately 
on this occasion as appertaining to one and the same system, actuated by 
corresponding impulses, and influenced by similar attractions in common 
with ourselves. Our policy is not one of exclusiveness, but rather that of 
fostering and developing new sources of emulation from within and from 
without, which can best be effected by cultivating a closer intimacy with 
those who are fellow-labourers in the same field. To all such we tender 
a hearty welcome. 
I would venture, in conclusion, to suggest to some few of our most 
esteemed Members, who are habitual absentees, the benefits which they 
might be enabled to confer by returning to our horizon from their remoter 
orbits in the realms of ether, and shedding new lustre upon our dis- 
cussions. 
» We are each of us more or less liable to be called upon in various ways 
to satisfy the importunities of conventional obligations; and in looking 
forward to the future as fraught with propitious augury, we must rely upon 
the zealous co-operation of all to improve our vigour and efficiency. 
We will now proceed, Gentlemen, to the ordinary business of the 
evening. 
On the proposal of Mr. Sheppard, seconded by Mr. Bates, it was agreed 
that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Members of Council and the 
Secretary for the trouble they had taken on behalf of the Society in making 
arrangements for the new Meeting Room and Library, and in removing 
and entirely re-arranging the collection of books. Also, that the thanks 
of the meeting be given to the Member who had so generously aided 
the Seciety by undertaking to provide the expenses of removal to Chandos 
Street. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History,’ vol. ii., 
part iii., nos. 83—5; part iv., no.1; ‘ Proceedings,’ vol. xvi., parts ii. and 
iv.; vol. xvii., parts i. and ii.; presented by the Society. ‘Bulletin of 
the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,’ vol. ii., no. 1; by the Society. 
‘Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,’ vol. xxx. in three parts, 
N.S., Zoology, vol. i., part 1; by the Society. ‘Proceedings of the 
Scientifie Meetings of the Zoological Society of London,’ 1875, parts 
2and8; by the Society. ‘ Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,’ 
t. vil., trim. 2; by the Society. ‘Transactions of the American Ento- 
mological Society,’ vol. v., sheets 1—14; by the Society. ‘ Bulletin de 
la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,’ 1874, no. 4; by the 
Society. ‘Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias exactas existente 
