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ANNUAL MEETING. 
January 16th, 1889. 
Dr. Davip Suarp, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 
An abstract of the Treasurer’s accounts was read by Mr. 
Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., one of the Auditors. 
Mr. H. Goss, one of the Secretaries, read the following :— 
Report of the Council. 
In accordance with the Bye-Laws, the Council beg to present 
the following Report :— 
During the year 1888 five Fellows have died, viz., the Rev. 
J. H. Brown, M.A.; Mr. Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S.; Mr. 
R. M. Lingwood, M.A.; Mr. H. J. §. Pryer; and Mr. 
George R. Waterhouse. Four Fellows have resigned ; and 
seventeen new Fellows have been elected. 
The number of Fellows elected during the year, although 
small in comparison with the number elected in 1886, is equal 
to, if not above, the average. At the same time the Society 
is in need of a larger number of members to enable it to 
publish more papers, and in other ways to advance its 
interests and promote its objects; and the Council earnestly 
hope that the Fellows will do their utmost to induce their 
friends to join the Society. 
At the present time the Society consists of an Hon. Life- 
President, 10 Honorary Fellows, 46 Life Fellows, and 247 
paying the Annual Subscription, making the total number of 
Fellows now on the Society’s List 304, which, after allowing 
for the losses by deaths and resignations, is an increase in 
number of 8 since the date of the Annual Meeting last year. 
The Transactions for the year 1888 form a volume of 
606 pages, containing 15 memoirs contributed by the follow- 
ing 14 authors, viz., Professor Westwood, M.A. (2 papers) ; 
Mr. James Edwards; Mr. Arthur G. Butler; Mr. Geo. 'T. 
Baker; Mr. Frederic Merrifield; Mr. G. F. Mathew, R.N. ; 
Mr. Martin Jacoby; Mr. C. O. Waterhouse; Mr. Edward 
Meyrick, B.A.; Mr. William White; Mr. H. J. Elwes; 
