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ANNUAL MEETING. 



Dr. F. A. DiXEY, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. K. Wylie Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read the 

 Treasurer's Balance Sheet, showing a balance of £28 8s. lOd 

 in the Society's favour, and moved the adoption thereof. Mr. 

 J. R. le B. ToMHN seconded the motion, which was carried 

 unanimously. 



Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1909-10 seven Fellows have died, viz. 

 Mr. H. W. Barker, Mr. John Brown, Capt. Frederick Hallam 

 Hardy, K.A.M.C, Mr. H. G. Palliser, the Rev. Dr. Henry 

 Charles Lang, M.D., Mr. Edward Connold, F.Z.S., and Mr. 

 Basil George Nevinson, M.A., F.Z.S. ; ten Fellows have 

 resigned, the names of two have been removed from the list, 

 and twenty-two new Fellows have been elected. 



The number of Fellows deceased, as also of those who have 

 resigned, or for other causes have been removed from the list, 

 is considei-ably below the average. We regret to observe, 

 however, that there is a decided falling-off in the total of 

 Fellows elected, though the number of those waiting election 

 in the early part of the new year is more satisfactory. 



At present the Society consists of twelve Honorary Fellowsj 

 five hundred and twenty-one Life and Subscribing Fellows, 

 making a total of five hundred and thirty-three. 



The Transactions for the year 1909 form a volume of five 

 hundred and fourteen pages, containing sixteen Memoirs by 

 the following authors : Mr. G. J. Arrow, Mr. W. L. Distant, 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe (two), Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, 

 Mr. F. Enock, Mr. H. Eltringham, Sir George F. Hampson, 

 Bart., Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, Mr. E. Meyrick, F.R.S., the 

 Rev. F. D. Morice, Mr. Claude Morley, Mr. A. M. Lea, Mr. 

 R. Shelford (two), and Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S. 



Of these sixteen papers, five relate to Lepidoptera, four to 

 Coleoptera, three to Hymenoptera, two to Orthoptera, one to 

 Homoptera-Hemiptera, Rhynchota, and one to Birds as a factor 

 in the production of mimetic resemblances among Butterflies. 



The Memoirs above referred to are illustrated by seventeen 



