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January 26, 1857. 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The 23rcl Anniversary Meeting was held on the 26lh inst., at the rooms of the 

 Society, 12, Bedford Row. 



Messrs. J. E. Gray, F. Grut, F. P. Pascoe, and T. "V. Wollaston, were elected 

 members of the Council, in the room of Messrs. J. Curtis, J. W. Douglas, F. Smith, 

 and J. O. Westwood. W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c., was re-elected President; 

 S. Stevens, Esq., F.L.S., Treasurer; and Messrs. E. Shepherd and E. W. Janson, 

 Secretaries. 



The Report of the Council for the year 1856 was read and received ; the abstract 

 of the Treasurer's accounts, as furnished by the auditors, showed a larger balance in 

 hand than on any former anniversary. 



The President delivered an Address on the affairs of the Society and the progress 

 of Entomology, for which, and his courteous conduct in the chair, and on all other 

 occasions, the Meeting passed a cordial vote of tliauks, with a request that he would 

 allow the Address to be printed. 



Votes of thanks were also passed to the Treasurer and Secretaries, and the retiring 

 Members of Council. 



Part 3 of Vol. iv., n. s., of the Society's ' Transactions' was on the table. 



ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



"We have now reached another anniversary ; and, m looking 

 back at the last year's operations, the Entomological Society will be 

 found quietly moving forward in the right direction, and carrying out 

 the objects for which it was originally formed. Our meetings have 

 been well attended, and rendered interesting by a great variety of 

 objects relating to Entomology exhibited by our members. Our 

 ' Transactions ' have been regularly published, and the papers read 

 at the meetings have been, without unnecessary loss of time, made 

 public. The number of our members remains unaltered. We have 

 to lament the death of three members, two ordinary and one foreign, 

 and we have had some withdrawals ; but against these we have had 

 several names added to our list ; and the vigour of the Society to do 

 good work never appeared greater than at present. Our Treasurer, 



