Charter and Bye-Latus 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
CHARTER. 
Victoria, 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 : 
Wuereas JosepH Witi1Am Dunnine, of Lincoln’s Inn, 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. Anp wuerras 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 
Royal 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 
