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THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting took place on Wednesday, January 15th, 

 1919, Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, being in the 

 Chair. 



The Treasurer, after explaining the position of affairs 

 under the new bye-law governing the audit, read his State- 

 ment of Accounts, which was adopted on the motion of 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, seconded by Mr. Hugh Main. 



The Rev. G. Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, then read 

 the following 



Report of the Council. 



Adverse circumstances notwithstanding, the condition of 

 the Society may be described as distinctly flourishing, our 

 numbers having again risen above 600. We have lost six 

 Fellows by death and eight by resignation; none have been 

 removed from the list. Twenty-one new Fellows have been 

 elected to the Society, and M. Paul Marchal was elected 

 early in the year to succeed to the Honorary Fellowship 

 rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Emil Frey-Gessner, 

 of Geneva, at the end of 1917. The Society now consists of 

 twelve Honorary Fellows, two Special Life Fellows, and 

 five hundred and ninety-one ordinary Fellows, making a 

 total of six hundred and five. Of those lost by death Capt. 

 Charles Emmett and Mr. C. Jemmett gave their lives for 

 their country, and Mr. C. 0. Farquharson, who was doing 

 admirable entomological work in Africa, was drowned in the 

 collision of the Biirutu, when returning home on leave; the 

 remaining three were Mr. E. A. Agar of Doniinica, the Rev. 

 V. E. Lowe, and Col. J. G. Pilcher. 



Owing to the great increase in the expense of printing, 

 the volume of the Transactions for 1917 will of necessity be 

 the smallest published for some years. It will consist of 



