XC CHARTER. 



expedient. NOW KNOW YE that WE, being desirous of 

 encouraging a design so laudable, and of promoting the 

 improvement and diffusion of Science in all its branches, 

 have of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge and mere 

 Motion, given and granted, and We do hereby give and 

 grant. That the said Joseph William Dunning and such 

 others of Our loving subjects as are now Fellows of the said 

 Society, or who shall at any time hereafter become Fellows 

 thereof in pursuance of the provisions of this Our Charter 

 and according to such Bye-Laws as are hereinafter men- 

 tioned, shall be a Body Corporate by the name of " The 

 Entomological Society of London," having perpetual succes- 

 sion and a common seal, with power to sue and be sued in 

 their Corporate name, and to acquire and hold any goods and 

 chattels whatsoever. 



And our Will and Pleasure is. That John Obadiah 

 Westwood, Esq., Master of Arts, Hope Professor of Zoology 

 in the University ol Oxford, shall be Honorary President of 

 the said Corporation during the term of his natural life. 

 And that Robert MacLachlan, F.R.S., shall be the li'rst 

 President of the said Corporation and shall continue such 

 until the Annual Meeting to be held in the month of January 

 next. 



And our Will and Pleasure is, And we do hereby declare, 

 that there shall always be a Council to direct and manage 

 the concerns of the said Corporation. And that the thirteen 

 persons, who were elected to form the Council of the said 

 Society at the Annual Meeting held in the month of January 

 last, shall form the first Council of the said Corporation, and 

 shall continue in Office until the Annual Meeting to be held 

 in the month of January next. 



And our Will and Pleasure is, And we further grant and 

 declare, that the existing Bye -Laws of the said Society, as 

 revised and amended at a General Meeting held on the 2nd 

 day of May, 1883, shall be the Bye-Laws of the said 

 Corporation, until the same shall be revoked or altered as 

 hereinafter mentioned. And that it shall be lawful at 

 General Meetings of the said Corporation to revoke or alter 

 any former Bye-Laws, and to make such neAv Bye-Laws as 



