xvm 



The stock of ' Transactions' for the five previous years has been made 

 up iiito volumes, and the colouring of the plates has involved considerable 

 outlay, from which, however, a return will be gradually received. 



The total expenditure for both ordinary and extraordinary purposes has 

 amounted to i'009. It is satisfactory to find that the ordinary income 

 would have sufficed to meet the ordinary outgoings, but it has only been by 

 special donations that the Council has had it in its power to accomplish all 

 that has been done, and the Society is indebted to Mr. Dunning for a 

 donation of £150. 



The financial account for the year may be thus summarized : — 



Receipts. 



Balance in hand 

 Contributions of Members 

 Life Compositions - 

 Sale of Publications 

 Interest on Consols 

 Donations 



^63 



197 



95 



52 



9 



199 



^615 



Payments. 

 Rent, Office and Meeting Ex- \ 



penses - - - J 

 Publications - - - . 

 Compositions invested - 



Library 



Catalogue of Hemiptera - 

 Back Volumes, binding and ) 



colouring - - J 



^131 



241 

 79 

 51 

 49 



58 



^609 



The Bye-Laws have been reprinted, with the alterations adopted by the 

 Society ; and twenty-eight Town IMembers have availed themselves of the 

 new regulation (see Chap. 15) enabling them to secure, by prepayment 

 of half-a-guinea, the same advantages in respect of the receipt of the 

 ' Transactions ' as are enjoyed by our Country Members. It is hoped 

 that other Town Members will take advantage of the Rule, under 

 which the ' Transactions ' are forwarded to them by post on the day of 

 publication. 



The most important alteration effected in the Bye-Laws was that by 

 which the Society, adopting the suggestion contained in the last Annual 

 Report, determined to appoint a Member of the Council to the office of 

 Librarian. Leaving the ministerial duties connected with the Library to a 

 salaried Sub-Librarian, the object of the Council was and is to obtain 

 the services of some Member of our body whose acquaintance with ento- 

 mological literature will enable him to advise the Council in all matters 

 connected with the Library, whose linguistic acquirements will facilitate 

 correspondence and the maintenance of friendly relations with Ento- 

 mological Societies abroad, and whose avocations will permit of his 

 attending at stated times at the Society's Rooms to render assistance to 

 those wishing to consult the contents of our shelves — in short, an officer 

 whose special object it shall be to see that the Library is made worthy of 

 the Society's position and advances with it, and whose special aim it shall 



