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CHARTER. 



Ft'CtOVt'a, 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 : 



Whekeas Joseph William Dunning, of Lincoln's Lm, 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 therefore, on 

 behalf of himself and the other Members of the said Society, 

 most humbly prayed that WE would be pleased to grant a 

 Eoyal 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 



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