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of the Council, Lieut. C. A. Foster, Partie pE LA GARDE, 
THIEN CHENG Kune, A. G. LerupripGe and G. MrYER- 
Pacrni. We have also received notice of the death of Mr. 
P. W. Mackinnon, which took place in 1911. Only three 
Fellows have been removed from the list, but the number of 
resignations is unusually large, being twelve; some of these, 
however, are only intended to-be temporary. Our total 
losses from all causes thus amount to twenty-six, whilst 
thirty-nine ordinary Fellows have been elected, bringing our 
total up to 618, composed of 12 honorary and 606 ordinary 
Fellows. 
The most important event we have to chronicle is that His 
Most Gracious Masresty, Kine Grorce, has consented to 
become our Patron. As this gratifying fact does not carry 
with it the title of Royal, the Council, after causing inquiries 
to be made, informally consulted the Society as to whether 
steps should be taken to make any alteration in our title; the 
response, however, was not such as to justify them in calling 
a Special Meeting to consider the question. 
The Society was represented at the International Congress 
of Zoology at Monaco by Lord WatstneuaM, the Hon. WALTER 
Roruscuitp and Dr. Karu Jorpan. At this Congress the 
vexed subject of Nomenclature was much discussed, and a 
beginning made towards an adequate recognition of the claims 
of Entomology in this matter, by the inclusion of as many 
Entomologists as the regulations with regard to retirement 
would permit, in the International Zoological Committee of 
Nomenclature. 
Following on the Resolution placed by our Society before 
the International Congress of Entomology, held at Oxford in 
1912, an International Entomological Committee of Nomen- 
clature has been formed, on which one of our Fellows, Mr. C. J. 
GAHAN, sits as the British Representative. At the same time 
the National Committees have been set on foot, and our 
Society has elected as its representatives on the English Com- 
mittee Messrs. J. H. Durrant, L. B. Prout and C. O. WATER- 
HOUSE. It has also appointed a permanent Committee of its 
own, consisting of the British member of the International 
Committee, its three representatives on the National Com- 
