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Anniversary Meeting, January 28, 1661. 

 J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Messrs. J. W. Dunning, H. G. Knaggs, R. M'Lachlan and G. R. Waterhouse, 

 were elected members of the Council, in the room of Messrs. J. E. Gray, F. Grut, 

 E. Sheppard, and S. J. Wilkinson. 



J. W. Douglas, Esq., was re-elected President ; S. Stevens, Esq., Treasurer ; and 

 Messrs. E. Shepherd and E. W. Janson, Secretaries. 



The Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee, made to and adopted by the 

 Council as their Report to the Society, was read and received. 



The President delivered an Address on the state and future prospects of the 

 Society and entomological Science, for which the Meeting passed a cordial vote of 

 thanks, and ordered it to be printed in the Society's ' Proceedings.' 



A vote of thanks to the retiring Members of the Council was also passed. 



Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee, adopted by the Council as their 

 Report to the Anniversary Meeting, 1861. 



We have the satisfaction of stating that our Collections and Library continue in 

 good preservation. 



In our Report last year we alluded to the very unsatisfactory condition of our 

 Collections of British Coleoptera and other orders, and appealed to our Members to 

 assist in rearranging them in accordance with the modern classifications and nomen- 

 clatures: as no response has yet been made to that appeal, we would suggest the 

 propriety of employing some person, if such can be found, able and willing to under- 

 take the task, feeling confident that were the collections properly arranged they would 

 speedily be greatly enriched by donations of specimens from those Members who are 

 engaged in the study of the various groups and orders, and facilitate the study of 

 British Entomology generally. 



We would therefore suggest that the sum of ten pounds be expended in repapering 

 the drawers and rearranging the Collection of Coleoptera, and that the specimens 

 presented to the Society by the Rev. W. Kirby be arranged separately, as was done 

 in the case of the Lepidoptera. 



J. W. DOUGLAS, President. 



W. WILSON SAUNDERS. 



F. P. PASCOE. 



FREDERICK SMITH. 



EDWIN SHEPHERD. 



