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the average, and the Society is in need of a considerable’ 
increase in this respect to enable it to publish more papers, 
and allow more plates, and in other ways to advance its 
interests and promote its objects. The Council therefore 
earnestly hope that the Fellows will do their utmost to in- 
duce their friends to join the Society, and thus increase its 
usefulness. 
At the present time the Society consists of 9 Honorary 
Fellows, 49 Life Fellows, and 808 paying the Annual Sub- 
scription, making the total number of Fellows now on the 
Society’s List 866, which, after allowing for the losses by 
deaths and resignations, is an increase of 15 since the Annual 
Meeting last year. 
The Transactions for the year 1893 form a volume of 481 
pages, containing 25 memoirs contributed by the following 
authors, viz., Mr. Henry J. Elwes and Mr. J. Edwards 
(2 papers), Mr. F. Merrifield, Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 
Mr. K. J. Morton, Mr. W. L. Distant (2 papers), Dr. T. A. 
Chapman, M.D. (2 papers), Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., 
Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., Mr. M. Jacoby, Mr. T. D. A. 
Cockerell, Mr. ©. J. Gahan, M.A., Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., 
F.R.S. (2 papers), Mr. W. Bartlett Calvert, Mr. J. W. Shipp, 
Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 
Colonel C. Swinhoe, M.A., Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., 
Dr. Auguste Forel, Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, M.A., and Prof. 
EK. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. Of these 25 papers, 12 relate 
to Lepidoptera (or to enquiries in which Lepidoptera were 
the subjects of experiment), 4 to Coleoptera, 3 to Hemiptera, 
2 to Neuroptera, 2 to Hymenoptera, 1 to Diptera, and 1 is on 
the subject of the Cost and Value of Insect Collections. 
The memoirs above referred to are illustrated by 15 plates, 
of which 38 are coloured. The Society is indebted to the 
President for the cost of Plates I., II., and III.; to Mr. F. 
Merrifield for the cost of Plate 1V.; to Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill 
and Mr. C. Hastings Dent for part of the cost of Plate VII. ; 
and to Prof. Miall. F.R.S., for part of the cost of Plates X., 
XI., XII., and XIII. 
The Proceedings, containing an account of the exhibitions 
and discussions at the Meetings, in addition to abstracts of 
