XXVll 
ANNUAL MEETING, 
January 24, 1876. 
Sir Sipnry Suir Saunpers, G.M.G., President, in the chair. 
An abstract of the Treasurer’s accounts for 1875 was read by Mr. J. Jenner 
Weir, one of the auditors, showing a balance of £286 Os. 11d. in favour of 
the Society. 
The Secretary then read the following :-— 
Report of the Council for 1875. 
In accordance with the Bye-laws the Council presents to the Society the 
following report :— 
Since the last annual meeting, 15 members and subscribers have been 
elected, whilst 8 have been removed by resignation or death. The Society 
has lost Henry Doubleday, one of the original members, and John Edward 
Gray, a former President. Prof. Burmeister has been placed on the list of 
honorary members, in the room of the late Prof. Zetterstedt. 
The Transactions for 1875 contain 21 memoirs, besides an appendix on 
Entomological Nomenclature, the whole forming a volume of 384 pages, 
exclusive of the Proceedings, with nine plates. A donation of ten guineas 
from Mr. Robinson-Douglas, to be applied to the publication of papers on 
British or European Entomology, has been appropriated to Mr. Edward 
Saunders’ Synopsis of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera; and the whole 
expense of printing the paper on Nomenclature has been defrayed by the 
author, Mr. W. Arnold Lewis. 
The financial statement of the year may be summarized as follows :-— 
RECEIPTS. PAYMENTS. 
Contributions of Members - £190) Publications’ - - : - £141 
Sale of Publications - - : 91| Rent and Office Expenses - : 94 
Life Compositions - - : 31| Compositions Invested = 2 31 
Interest on Consols’ - - : 6| Library’ - 5 : - = 5 
Donations - = . - 28| Tea at Meetings : = : 12 
£346 | £283 
The unusually large balance in hand of £63 is, however, more apparent 
than real, and the greater part thereof will be required to meet expenditure 
in the Library, which has been already authorized. So long as the Library 
