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On the initiative of the Council the Bye-Laws were 
amended at a Special Meeting held June 2nd, 1897, when 
the modifications which the experience of the past eleven 
years had shown to be desirable were unanimously adopted. 
Of these the most important are the increase of the Council 
from thirteen to fifteen Members; the simplification of the 
regulations for filling up chance vacancies in the Council or 
Officers, and for the removal of Fellows; and the restoration 
of a former Bye-Law, that a candidate for election shall be 
proposed from personal knowledge. 
The Transactions for the year contain nineteen papers, 
which are of somewhat shorter average length than usual, 
and form a volume of 434 pages. They are contributed by 
the following authors: Dr. Arthur G. Butler; Mr. George C. 
Champion; Dr. Frederick A. Dixey; Dr. Auguste Forel ; 
Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., and Mr. Osbert Salvin, 
F.R.S.; Mr. A. Radcliffe Grote; Sir George F. Hampson, 
Bart.; Mr. Martin Jacoby and Mr. George C. Champion ; 
Mr. George W. Kirkaldy ; Mr. Oswald H. Latter; the Rey. 
Thomas A. Marshall; Mr. Edward Meyrick (2 papers) ; 
Prof. Louis C. Miall, F.R.S., Mr. R. Shelford and Baron C. 
R. Osten Sacken; the Rev. F. D. Morice; Mr. Robert 
Newstead ; Mrs. M. de la B. Nicholl; the Rt. Honble. Lord 
Walsingham, F.R.S.; and Mr. Charles O. Waterhouse. 
Of these papers, 15 are descriptive, systematic or faunistic, 
and relate: 8 to Coleoptera, 2 to Hemiptera, 3 to Hymeno- 
ptera, and 7 to Lepidoptera. Of the remaining papers, 3 deal 
with morphological and bionomical questions in Lepidoptera 
and Diptera, and one with Mimicry in Lepidoptera. 
These Memoirs are illustrated by 11 plates, of which 4 are 
coloured, For the cost of Plates II. and III., and for a 
portion of the cost of Plates VIII.-X1., the Society is indebted 
to Dr. Holland and Prof. L. C. Miall respectively. That of 
Plates I. and VI. has been defrayed out of the income 
derived from the ‘‘ Westwood Bequest.” 
The Council desire that some permanent token shall exist 
. to mark the indebtedness of this Society to the constant 
solicitude and generosity of the late Mr. Joseph W. Dunning. 
They have decided, therefore, to present the Society with 
